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.
Fundraising is one of the few jobs where your results are impossible to hide. Every organization tracks the money, so every hiring manager sitting across from you wants proof that you can move that number and keep donors coming back. The tricky part is that “fundraiser” isn’t one job. You might be interviewing as an…
The Communications Director job isn’t what it was ten years ago. You’re not just writing press releases and fielding reporter calls anymore, you’re a strategic advisor to the C-suite, the person who protects the organization’s reputation, and the one expected to prove that communications actually moves the business forward. That shift shows up in the…
Channel Manager roles are a strange hybrid. You’re expected to drive revenue like a salesperson, but through partners you don’t actually manage, distributors, resellers, VARs, MSPs, and tech-ecosystem partners who have their own priorities. That’s exactly why these interviews trip people up. Interviewers aren’t just checking whether you’re friendly and organized. They want proof that…
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…
