Mike Simpson is the co-founder of The Interview Guys, the career-advice site he launched in February 2013 to help job seekers actually land the roles they want. Over the last 13 years, the site has reached more than 100 million job seekers worldwide, and Mike's particular focus is interview preparation: how candidates can actually answer the questions hiring managers really care about.
He holds a Business degree from Bishop's University (HR major, Economics minor) and is an active member of the Professional Association of Résumé Writers & Career Coaches (PARWCC) and the National Career Development Association (NCDA). His advice has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and CNBC, and is referenced by career-services teams at the University of Michigan, Penn State, Northeastern, the University of Toronto, McGill, Wellesley College, and Kansas State, among others.
Articles credited to Mike on The Interview Guys are reviewed and edited by him personally to make sure the frameworks, examples, and recommendations match what actually works in real interviews.
Making Sergeant is the first real leadership jump above the officer line, and the interview reflects that. You’re no longer being asked whether you can run a post safely. You’re being asked whether you can run a shift, coach the people on it, and keep your head when everything goes sideways. Most agencies fill this…
Technical recruiting sits in a strange, valuable spot. You have to speak HR fluently and engineering credibly, all while a hiring manager is refreshing their inbox waiting for candidates. The pay reflects how hard that balance is to find. The BLS lists a median wage of $72,910 for human resources specialists (the category that covers…
Fashion consultant is one of those job titles that means five different things depending on who’s hiring. You might be a personal stylist building wardrobes one client at a time, a retail floor consultant driving sales, a corporate image consultant polishing executives, or an editorial stylist pulling looks for a shoot. That range is exactly…
The Chief Accountant seat is one of those roles where nobody hires you for potential. They hire you because you’ve already run a close cycle, owned a compliance headache, and steadied a team when the numbers got messy. That’s true whether you’re targeting a corporate role at a large enterprise, a Controller-style position at a…
Fencing installer interviews aren’t like sitting across a desk from a corporate recruiter. They’re fast, practical, and heavily focused on what you can actually do with a post-hole digger and a tape measure in your hands. The good news is that means you can prepare in a very targeted way. Hiring managers want to hear…
The Chief Compliance Officer seat is one of the few executive roles where a single bad call can cost the company millions and land your name in a regulator’s press release. So when you walk into that interview, the panel isn’t just checking whether you know the rules. They’re deciding whether they’d trust you in…
Every interview guide ever written, including a decade’s worth of ours, ends with the same advice: practice out loud. And almost nobody does it. Not because people are lazy. Because the available options are all quietly terrible. Practicing into a mirror feels absurd. Asking your spouse to play hiring manager gets you either giggles or…
The tricky thing about prepping for Systems Engineer interviews is that no two of them look alike. An infrastructure-heavy IT role, a cloud platform team, an embedded hardware shop, and a defense contractor will all grill you on wildly different things while using the exact same job title. What they share is the core bet…
School psychologist interviews are a different animal from most education hiring. You’re not sitting across from one person, you’re usually facing a panel that might include a principal, a special education director, and sometimes a fellow psychologist who does the exact job you’re applying for. That means your answers have to work on two levels…
The Director of Communications job asks you to be several people at once: a strategist, a crisis manager, a sharp writer, and a trusted counselor to the C-suite. That’s a lot to prove in a few interview rounds. It’s also a role that pays for that range. The closest federal category, public relations and fundraising…
