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.
Baking is one of those jobs where talent shows up fast. You either know how to read dough, hold a schedule, and keep a kitchen calm at 4 a.m., or you don’t, and a good interviewer can usually tell within a few questions. Here’s the tricky part. The word “Baker” covers a huge range of…
Walking into a butcher interview is a little different from most jobs. The hiring manager isn’t just reading your resume, they’re watching how you talk about the craft, and sometimes they’ll hand you a knife to see what you can actually do. Whether you’re going for an apprentice spot, a retail meat cutter role at…
Teleperformance hires at a scale most companies never touch, running dozens of client campaigns at once and staffing everything from entry-level customer service agents to technical support reps, sales reps, team leaders, quality analysts, and fully remote work-from-home agents. That volume is good news and bad news. The good news: the bar to get an…
Retention is where companies quietly win or lose. Anyone can sign a customer up, but keeping them paying month after month is the harder, more valuable skill, and it’s exactly what hiring managers are testing when you sit down for a Customer Retention Specialist interview. This role lives in a lot of places. SaaS companies,…
The airline pilot interview isn’t one conversation. It’s a series of events that can stretch across multiple days: an HR screen, a pilot-to-pilot panel, a structured behavioral interview, a deep technical grilling, and a simulator evaluation where someone throws an abnormal at you and watches how you think. And the stakes are real. According to…
If you’ve got an interview lined up at U.S. Bank, you’re sitting across from one of the biggest names in American banking. U.S. Bancorp is the fifth-largest commercial bank in the country, which means the bar is real but the process is far from impossible. Here’s the good news. U.S. Bank’s interviews lean heavily behavioral,…
The Executive Producer chair is one of the few jobs where you’re expected to be a creative visionary and a P&L owner in the same breath. You greenlight the work, you protect the budget, and you carry the blame when either one slips. That dual identity is exactly why EP interviews feel different from anything…
The Energy Analyst title covers a huge spread of work. One job might have you forecasting demand for a utility, another might have you modeling spark spreads at a trading desk, and a third might put you inside buildings running efficiency audits. That range is exactly why interviews for this role can feel unpredictable. The…
Dutch Bros is one of those places where your personality matters more than your resume, and that catches a lot of candidates off guard. You can walk in with years of coffee experience and still lose the spot to someone warmer, more curious, and clearly there for the people. That’s not an accident. Dutch Bros…
A Facilities Director job is one of those rare roles that asks you to be a budget owner, a compliance expert, a crisis manager, and a people leader all at once. The interview reflects that. You’re not just answering questions about fixing buildings, you’re proving you can run a complex operation like a business. Whether…
