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.
A layoff scrambles two things at once: your finances and your confidence. You need to move fast, but you also need to sound like a professional who has their act together, not someone typing job applications at midnight in a panic. That’s exactly the gap ChatGPT fills well. It’s genuinely strong at the language-heavy grind…
Freelancing is a writing job before it’s anything else. Before a client ever sees your work, they see your pitch, your profile, your proposal, and your rate email. Win those and the gig is yours. That’s exactly where ChatGPT earns its keep. Feed it a client brief and your real credentials and it drafts a…
Your personal brand is just the answer to one question: why you and not the other 200 applicants? Most people fumble that answer because writing about yourself is genuinely hard. You’re too close to it. That’s exactly where ChatGPT earns its keep. It’s a language machine, and personal branding is a language problem. It can…
Getting two offers at once feels like winning. Then you sit down to compare them and realize you’re stacking salary against equity against PTO against a commute, and your brain just stalls. This is exactly the kind of messy, multi-variable problem ChatGPT is good at. Feed it real numbers and tell it what you care…
Here’s a number that got a lot of people typing angry: 77% of full-time Gen Z adults say they’ve brought a parent to a job interview, according to a ResumeTemplates.com survey of 831 workers. About 13% say they always did it, and 24% say they often did. The internet’s take was instant and lazy: soft…
Most job seekers guess at their skills gap. They see a rejection, assume they’re missing something, and start panic-buying courses they’ll never finish. ChatGPT fixes the guessing part. Feed it a real job description and your real resume, and it will map the exact delta between what the role wants and what you’re showing. That’s…
Recruiter outreach is where most job seekers freeze. You know you should message that recruiter, but you stare at the blank box and end up sending nothing, or worse, you send something so generic it gets ignored in three seconds. ChatGPT fixes the blank-box problem fast. It’s genuinely good at turning a rough idea into…
Your portfolio is the thing that gets you hired when your resume can only get you noticed. But most people freeze when it’s time to actually build one, because writing about your own work is weirdly hard. That’s where Gemini earns its spot. It holds a huge amount of context at once, so you can…
Most people wait until review season to think about their promotion. By then it’s too late. The person who gets bumped up already spent months quietly building the case, gathering proof, and rehearsing the ask. Gemini is a genuinely good partner for that work. It drafts and refines through back-and-forth dialogue, it researches your company…
Landing an internship in 2026 is its own full-time job, and you probably already have one of those called classes. You need to research companies, tailor materials, network, and prep for interviews, all at once. That’s exactly where Gemini earns its keep. Here’s what most people get wrong: they type “write me a cover letter…
