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.
The summary is the first thing a hiring manager reads, and often the only thing they finish. If those two to four sentences do not signal GAAP fluency, real software, and clean numbers, your resume gets skimmed and set aside. Most accountants blow it here. They write something vague like ‘detail-oriented professional seeking a challenging…
The box at the top of your resume decides whether a recruiter reads line two or moves on. On a project manager resume, that block has about seven seconds to prove you deliver, not just coordinate. Most candidates blow it. They write “results-driven professional with a passion for excellence” and call it a day. That…
Here’s a number that should stop you cold. One job seeker used LazyApply to fire off 5,000 automated applications and landed 20 interviews. He had already gotten those exact same 20 interviews from 300 applications he filled out by hand. Same payoff, roughly 16 times the volume. That’s the entire case against auto-apply in one…
Here’s the number that should reset how you think about job postings: 44% of Gen Z college graduates say they’ll pull out of an application, sometimes by flat-out ghosting the recruiter, if the salary range never shows up during the process. That’s from the Monster 2025 State of the Graduate Report, and it’s not a…
Your resume gets a grade before a human ever sees it. In 2026, the median fit score for an unoptimized resume is 48 out of 100, and 51% of resumes land below 50 before anyone touches them, according to ResumeAdapter’s pipeline data. That number matters more than most job seekers realize, because it isn’t a…
Here’s the read most people get backwards on exploding job offers: the tighter the deadline, the weaker the position behind it. A company that’s truly confident in its offer doesn’t need to threaten to pull it by Friday at 5. The urgency isn’t really about you. It’s information about them, and academic research backs the…
Here’s a number that should bother you more than it does: only 25% of companies fill more than half their open roles with people they already employ. That means three out of four organizations reach for a stranger before they reach for the person one desk over. The convenient story is that companies just can’t…
How Target hiring works in 2026: the application and assessment, the friendly-but-structured interview, the recorded video variant, hiring at 16, seasonal waves as the easiest door, and the first-month moves that set up promotion.
Here’s the number that should reframe your entire job search: 80% of job seekers now use AI throughout their search, while the World Economic Forum estimates 90% of employers run automated screening systems, according to Clutch’s 2026 State of AI Hiring report. That means on nearly every application you submit, an AI is screening an…
The box at the top of your resume is the first thing a chef reads, and most of the time it is the last. If it says nothing, they move to the next resume in the stack. Here is what trips people up: most Line Cook candidates fill that space with something soft like “hardworking…
