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.
There’s a job title that barely existed five years ago that now shows up in nearly every major tech company’s hiring pipeline: AI Product Manager. This isn’t your typical PM role with a new coat of paint. Companies are building entirely new product lines, internal tools, and customer-facing features powered by machine learning, large language…
Only 1 in 5 employees worldwide is engaged at work right now. That number isn’t just a workplace wellness story. It’s a job search story. Here’s what the data actually means for anyone navigating the 2026 job market. The numbers dropped in April 2026 and they’re not pretty. Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace: 2026…
Getting an interview for a General Manager role is a serious milestone. It means someone already believes you might be able to run the place. But the interview itself? That’s where candidates who looked great on paper start to fall apart. GM interviews are not like most job interviews. You’re not just answering questions about…
Hiring managers who interview entry-level data science candidates report the same frustration over and over: candidates can talk about concepts but can’t open a Jupyter notebook and actually do the work. That’s the gap this specialization is explicitly designed to close. The IBM Data Science Fundamentals with Python and SQL Specialization on Coursera is a…
Budget analyst roles are competitive, and the interview process reflects that. You’re not just answering generic “tell me about yourself” questions. You’re being evaluated on your ability to build and defend a forecast, explain a variance that doesn’t look great, and communicate complex financial data to people who don’t live inside spreadsheets. The good news…
Something interesting happened when AI took over the internet: creative work got more valuable, not less. That sounds backward. But think about what’s flooding every platform right now. Generic AI-generated content. Soulless stock images. Blog posts written by robots that read like robots. The result? Audiences are starving for anything that feels genuinely human. Anything…
Here’s the hiring manager reality right now: every developer is putting “generative AI” on their resume. Almost none of them can prove it. That gap is exactly what the Microsoft Generative AI Engineering Professional Certificate on Coursera was built to close. Offered directly by Microsoft and updated as recently as January 2026, this five-course program…
If you’re already working in Power BI and your organization just turned on Copilot, you’ve probably felt the gap. The tool is there, your manager expects you to use it, and you’re figuring it out in real time. That’s exactly who this course is for. Microsoft’s Copilot for Power BI on Coursera is a tight,…
So you’ve spent years in the weeds. You’ve worked the line, survived brutal Saturday nights, trained line cooks who are now sous chefs themselves, and you’ve got the scars on your forearms to prove it. Now you’re sitting across the table from a GM or an owner who wants to know if you’re ready to…
The job market has changed, but most job search advice hasn’t caught up. Hiring timelines are longer, offer quality has dropped, and the psychological toll of searching while broke and desperate is real. What the data now shows, however, is that workers with a side hustle are navigating all of this completely differently. According to…
