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.
Most people use AI for interview prep the lazy way. They ask for model answers, copy them down, and walk into the room sounding like a robot reciting a script. Gemini is built for something better. It can run a real back-and-forth interview, quiz you in Learning Mode, and let you rehearse out loud through…
What working at CVS is really like on both sides of the counter: the staffing issue behind the low-threes rating, the store-scouting checklist, front store at 16 vs pharmacy at 18, and the full hiring process including HireVue.
Companies spent the last few years telling you that the degree no longer matters. Then researchers checked the receipts. Fewer than 1 in 700 new hires actually benefited from companies dropping degree requirements, roughly 97,000 workers out of 77 million yearly hires in 2023, according to HR Dive’s reporting on the Harvard Business School and…
Copilot is shockingly good at one thing your LinkedIn profile desperately needs: taking a messy pile of your experience and turning it into clean, tight copy in seconds. Feed it a rough summary of what you did and it hands back a polished headline or About section faster than you could open a blank text…
Gemini is quietly one of the best tools out there for fixing a LinkedIn profile. It’s sharp at tone calibration, so it can take a stiff, resume-flavored About section and make it sound like a confident human wrote it. Drop in a job posting and it pulls the keywords recruiters are actually screening for. Here’s…
The CVS pharmacy technician path end to end: no-experience hiring at 18, paid training, CVS-sponsored PTCB certification, $19-to-$23 average wages, and the five career exits the credential unlocks.
If you’ve been grinding through the kitchen hierarchy and finally have a sous chef interview on the calendar, you already know this role is different from anything you’ve interviewed for before. It’s not just about being the best cook in the room. The sous chef position is equal parts culinary skill, people management, and operational…
The box at the top of your resume is the first thing a hiring manager reads, and often the only thing they read before deciding to keep going or move on. For a forklift job, they are scanning for three things fast: are you certified, what class of truck can you run, and can you…
Here’s the gap a lot of aspiring analysts hit: you can slice a spreadsheet fine, but the second a job posting says ‘proficiency in Python, pandas, and NumPy,’ you freeze. This course is aimed squarely at that wall. It’s Introduction to Data Analysis Using Python, built by Google Career Certificates, and it’s course 7 of…
Gemini has one thing most AI tools don’t: a giant context window. You can paste a full job description and your entire resume into a single prompt and it won’t choke or forget the top half by the time it reaches the bottom. That makes it a genuinely useful cover letter partner. But here’s what…
