Jeff Gillis is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of The Interview Guys, the career-advice site he and Mike Simpson launched in 2013. Over the last 13 years, Jeff has been the strategic mind behind how the site connects with job seekers, helping reach more than 100 million people worldwide through content, tools, and product development.
His background is in IT and digital strategy, which shapes how he approaches the modern job search: ATS systems, resume optimization, the mechanics of how recruiters and platforms actually filter candidates, and the tactics that work when applying through online portals. Jeff has published more than 50 in-depth career resources including case studies, comprehensive guides, and video courses, and his work has appeared in INC, MSN, and ZDNet.
Articles credited to Jeff on The Interview Guys are reviewed and edited by him personally, with a focus on resume strategy, job-search tactics, and how to actually get past the digital gatekeepers most candidates struggle with.
Here’s a number that should cool off your post-interview high: 61% of candidates report being ghosted after an interview, according to HiringThing’s 2026 job application statistics. That means well over half of people never hear back, and a huge chunk of them walked out feeling great. The reason they felt great is usually the same…
Here’s the thing hiring managers won’t say out loud: when a community manager role opens up, they get a flood of applicants who think the job is just posting memes and replying to comments. Most of those resumes get tossed in the first thirty seconds because nobody can prove they understand strategy, moderation, or how…
Here’s a fact that should change how you think about every interview you’ve ever bombed or aced: at Amazon, according to a former Bar Raiser writing at Working Backwards, the debrief vote is usually split between ‘inclined’ and ‘not inclined’ to hire. Not the exception. The norm. That means the decision doesn’t get made in…
Here’s what runs through a hiring manager’s head when a resume crosses their desk for a digital marketing role: can this person actually run a campaign, or did they just watch some videos? In a field where digital channels now eat up nearly 80% of marketing budgets, nobody has time to train a hire from…
You’ve heard the stat a thousand times: recruiters spend about six seconds looking at your resume. The Ladders bumped that number to 7.4 seconds in their 2018 eye-tracking study, and career blogs have been repeating it ever since like it’s the whole story. It isn’t. That 7.4-second number was never a measure of how long…
Here’s the thing most career changers don’t realize about enterprise software. When a hiring manager at Deloitte or Capgemini sees “SAP” on a resume from someone with no SAP background, their first instinct is skepticism, because the field is full of people who learned a buzzword and nothing behind it. The SAP Technology Consultant Professional…
Here is what runs through an HR hiring manager’s head when a resume with zero HR experience lands in the stack: can this person be trusted with confidential information, and do they actually know employment law basics? Those two fears kill more entry-level HR applications than anything else. A credential from HRCI, the organization that…
Here is the thing a hiring manager actually feels when a stack of SDR resumes lands on the desk: most of them look identical, and almost none of them prove the candidate understands what the job really is. That is the bar this certificate is trying to clear for you. I should be upfront that…
When a hiring manager opens a stack of resumes for a Sales Operations Specialist role, they are scanning for one thing first: can this person actually use Salesforce without three months of hand-holding. Most applicants can’t prove it. The Salesforce Sales Operations Professional Certificate exists to close that exact gap, and third-party reviewers peg its…
Here is what runs through a hiring manager’s head when a data architect role lands on their desk: they need someone who can design the whole system, not just query it. Most applicants can write SQL. Almost none can sketch how data should flow from a dozen messy sources into a governed, compliant warehouse the…
