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.
Target pay in 2026: the published $15-to-$24 starting range and how to land its top end, team leads at $26 to $47 an hour, the ETL ladder, and the Dream to Be education benefit that changes the whole math.
The top of your resume is prime real estate, and a hiring manager decides in seconds whether to keep reading. If that opening block is generic, you blend in with every other applicant who wrote “hardworking cleaner looking for a job.” Most housekeeper candidates waste those three sentences on what they want instead of what…
What working at Microsoft is really like: 4.0/5 across 68,000+ reviews, the big five’s best work-life balance, the growth-mindset culture tested against the reviews, the 63/65 promotion gates, and who thrives.
Here’s a number that should stop you cold. 77% of companies run formal employee referral programs, but only 2% say those programs are actually meeting their hiring goals. That’s according to WorldatWork’s 2024 Bonus Programs and Practices research, which surveyed 706 U.S. organizations. Most people read that gap as bad news. We read it as…
Most people treat networking like a chore they’re bad at. They stare at a blank message box, freeze, and close the tab. That’s exactly where ChatGPT earns its keep. It’s genuinely good at the parts that stall you: drafting the first cold message, prepping talking points for a coffee chat, and role-playing the conversation so…
The box at the top of your resume gets read first and skimmed fastest. A hiring manager decides in seconds whether you can sell, whether you are licensed, and whether you are worth a call. Most Insurance Agent candidates waste it. They write something like “motivated sales professional seeking to grow with a great company,”…
Microsoft pay decoded for 2026: level 59’s ~$163k package to principal’s $340k+, how base, bonus, and stock assemble, and the $114k-to-$221k median posted bands we found analyzing 177 real Microsoft listings.
Changing careers is mostly a translation problem. You already have the skills, but they’re described in the language of the job you’re leaving, not the one you want. That gap is exactly where ChatGPT earns its keep. It’s genuinely strong at the language-heavy work a switch demands: reframing your experience, tailoring applications to a specific…
What working at Apple is really like in both worlds: the best-paid floor in retail and its flagship-intensity expectations, and the corporate culture of functional depth, DRI accountability, and secrecy by design.
One company watched its offer acceptance rate jump from 34% to 61% within two hiring cycles, and it didn’t raise a single salary to do it. The fix was speed and process, not money, according to the Avua Recruitment Glossary. Here’s our take: when a company loses candidates at the finish line, it almost always…
