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 Honest Answer First Most “best remote jobs” lists were written before AI started doing the work. Data entry. Basic transcription. Routine customer service triage. These were the classic beginner-friendly remote categories, and they’re being automated at a rate that makes recommending them feel irresponsible. AI automation is projected to displace 9.2 million data entry…
Remote work has officially grown up. What started as a pandemic workaround has become a permanent, competitive job market where companies fight for top talent regardless of zip code. And the salaries reflect it. The real shift happening right now: employers are no longer just tolerating remote workers. They’re actively building distributed teams and paying…
Side hustles are no longer just for people scraping together rent money. According to ZipRecruiter’s January 2026 survey of 1,500 employed workers, 35% of U.S. workers currently hold a side hustle or multiple jobs. What’s striking is who’s leading that trend: workers earning over $150,000 a year are the most likely group to have supplemental…
Andrej Karpathy, one of the original architects at OpenAI, put it plainly: the LLM is like the CPU, and its context window is like RAM. It is the model’s working memory. And just like you would not let a CPU run with random garbage loaded into RAM, you cannot expect an AI system to perform…
The Numbers Behind the Disruption The trade policy story of 2025 and 2026 is not just a headline. It’s showing up in employment data in ways that haven’t been seen outside of recessions. U.S. manufacturing employment declined for eight consecutive months in the second half of 2025. The sector shed roughly 90,000 jobs over the…
Why Weekend Jobs Are Smarter Than Ever in 2026 The old version of a weekend job was folding sweaters at the mall for $10 an hour. That model still exists, but it’s no longer the whole story. In 2026, weekend work spans everything from remote customer service at $22/hr to weekend wedding photography at $800…
Flexible work was supposed to be the answer for working moms. And for a while, it was. Then came the return-to-office wave of 2025. Major corporations rushed to bring workers back five days a week, and the data tells an uncomfortable story. Labor force participation among women ages 25 to 44 with children under five…
The retirement dream looks a little different for a lot of people these days. Maybe Social Security covers the basics but not the extras. Maybe you retired early and miss having something purposeful to do between nine and noon. Or maybe you just want to stay sharp, earn a little extra, and do it from…
Why Former Teachers Are Built for Remote Work You spent years standing in front of a room full of people, managing chaos, simplifying complex ideas, and tracking 30 individual progress reports at once. Those skills do not disappear when you hand in your keys. What most former teachers underestimate is how directly their classroom abilities…
If you find phone calls draining, video meetings exhausting, or open-plan offices genuinely painful, you are not broken. You are an introvert, and the job market in 2026 has never been better suited to how your brain actually works. The rise of asynchronous remote work means companies are increasingly paying for what you produce, not…
