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.
The real overnight stocker deal at Walmart: the premium over posted base pay, the 18+ rule, what the 10pm-to-7am shift actually involves, the honest health costs, and who genuinely does better working nights.
Here’s the thing nobody tells you about the interview you just nailed. The moment you walk out, your entire performance gets crushed down into one sentence that goes into a database, and that sentence is what actually decides your fate. According to Pin’s 2026 Interview Debrief and Calibration guide, the standard structured debrief ends with…
What working at Walmart is really like: the 3.4/5 rating decoded, day-to-day by department, what employees praise and complain about, and how to scout your specific store before applying, because the store decides everything.
Here’s the gap this specialization is trying to close for you. Data engineering roles are shifting fast toward AI-augmented work, and plenty of solid data folks can build a pipeline but freeze when a hiring manager asks how they’d actually use generative AI inside one. That’s the credibility hole IBM’s Generative AI for Data Engineers…
Here’s a number that should make every team lead nervous. 57% of managers and above say they’ve had to fix or redo work from coworkers who leaned too hard on AI, compared to just 38% of individual contributors, according to Founder Reports’ 2026 AI in the Workplace survey. That gap is the whole story. The…
Walmart’s real 2026 pay, rung by rung: posted hourly bands by store, the overnight premium, team leads near $33/hr, and the published store manager package that can clear $400,000, plus the benefits that change the math.
Your manager thinks coordination eats about 21% of their week. Their own itemized time logs say the real number is 41%, and nearly half of that is spent sitting in status meetings. That gap, the one between what your boss believes and what’s actually on the calendar, is the whole story of AI at work…
How Aldi hiring actually works: the phone screen, the 15-to-30-minute interview, the group hiring event format, Aldi’s own published dress guidance, the 18+ rule, and the two-week decision promise.
If you’re an educator or an instructional designer, you’ve probably felt the ground shift under you. Generative AI is showing up in classrooms, corporate training, and ed-tech products, and the people who can actually use it well are getting noticed. The problem is that most of us learned to teach or design content long before…
Here’s a number that should make you nervous: 51.7% of recruiters don’t read cover letters, but only 22.9% of HR managers and 29.4% of HR heads skip them. That gap is the whole story (Novoresumé). The reading rate climbs as you move up the org chart toward the person who actually decides. So when a…
