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.
Landing a Chemical Plant Operator job is different from most interviews you’ll sit through. The person across the table isn’t just checking whether you’re a nice teammate, they’re deciding whether they can trust you around reactors, high pressure systems, and hazardous materials. That means your answers have to do double duty. You need to show…
Auditing is one of those careers where the interview is basically a live audit of you. Employers want to see how you think, how you handle pressure, and whether you’ll hold the line when someone above you wants a finding to quietly disappear. The tricky part is that “auditor” isn’t one job. You could be…
Acquisitions Editor interviews are a different animal from most editorial hiring. Nobody just wants to know if you can catch a typo. They want proof you can spot a book that sells before anyone else does, then talk an agent into signing with you. This role sits at the crossroads of taste and business. You’re…
If you’re eyeing a job at your local Baskin-Robbins, here’s some good news right up front: this is one of the friendlier, lower-stress interviews you’ll ever sit through. Most candidates meet one-on-one with the store manager for a casual conversation about their availability, a few customer service scenarios, and what makes them tick. But easy…
Here’s the thing most people get wrong about HSBC. They think the video round is a formality before a real human interview. It isn’t. Most of the filtering happens here, before anyone at HSBC ever sees your face live. HSBC calls this stage the Job Simulation Assessment, or JSA. The recorded video questions inside it…
Golden Corral hires for a huge range of jobs, from servers and cashiers to line cooks, dishwashers, bakery prep cooks, and shift managers all the way up to general manager. The good news is that the bar to clear here is more about attitude than resume polish. Candidates on Glassdoor rate the interview difficulty at…
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is the world’s largest hotel franchising company, with a global portfolio of approximately 9,300 hotels spanning budget brands like Super 8 all the way up to the upscale Wyndham Grand. That scale matters for your interview, because a front desk role at a franchised property and a corporate revenue job in…
Vodafone’s HireVue interview is a one-way recorded video. There’s no human on the other end, just you, a webcam, a countdown, and a handful of questions you answer into the void. That format throws people. You can’t read a face, you can’t riff off a follow-up, and you usually can’t retake a live question once…
CVS Health hires for a huge range of jobs, from the pharmacy tech filling prescriptions to the data analyst crunching numbers in a corporate office. That means there’s no single script for the interview, but there is a pattern, and once you see it, prepping gets a lot easier. Here’s the good news: this isn’t…
If you’ve applied for a job at Tractor Supply, you’re probably expecting something buttoned-up and corporate. It’s usually the opposite. Store-level interviews here tend to be relaxed, conversational, and focused on who you are more than what’s on your resume. That casual tone can trip people up, though. When a manager is chatting with you…
