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.
What Amazon warehouse work is really like across 20,000+ employee reviews: the measured rate system explained honestly, four-day schedules and peak season, the physical reality, and who genuinely does well there.
The box at the top of your resume is the first thing a hiring manager reads, and it decides whether they read the rest. Get it right and they see an operational leader. Get it wrong and they see another administrative assistant. Most Office Manager candidates fill that space with soft filler like “organized professional…
Here’s the gap almost every aspiring data analyst hits first: you know you want in, but you have no idea what the job actually is, which tools matter, or where you fit between a data engineer and a data scientist. You keep bookmarking courses without a plan. That’s the exact fog IBM’s Introduction to Data…
ChatGPT is genuinely good at the parts of a cover letter that make you stall. It structures a messy pile of notes fast, it matches tone to a company, and it rewrites the same paragraph ten ways in seconds so you can pick the one that sounds like you. Here’s what most people get wrong:…
Amazon pay in 2026 from 602 real postings we analyzed: the $20.50+ warehouse average, the $29-$48/hr skilled-hourly middle, and Amazon’s own posted corporate bands, $136k to $194k median, by role family.
Here’s the number that should reframe how you think about your job search: 1 in 180 applicants gets hired, and only 3% ever get an interview invite, according to CareerPlug’s analysis of more than 10 million applications across 60,000+ small businesses. You’ve been reading that silence as a verdict on you. It’s usually not. It’s…
ChatGPT is the closest thing you have to a free interview coach that answers at 2am. It can predict the questions you’ll face, poke holes in your answers, and play a picky hiring manager who won’t let you ramble. But most people use it wrong. They type “help me prepare for my interview,” get a…
Every stage of Walmart hiring in order: the application fields that matter, the situational-judgment assessment where most applicants fail, the behavioral interview, age rules (16 vs 18), what to wear, and orientation.
Here’s the gap almost every career changer hits when they try to break into tech: you can follow a tutorial and copy commands, but you freeze the second an interviewer asks you to explain why a team does things a certain way. That’s the credibility gap, and it’s exactly what the IBM DevOps, Cloud, and…
Here’s a number that should annoy every job seeker who’s ever obsessed over their resume: 42% of candidates walk away from a hiring process when scheduling the interview takes too long. Not the interview itself. The part before it, the back-and-forth of finding a time. That stat comes from the Cronofy Candidate Expectations Report 2024,…
