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.
Who Is ISSA (And Why Does It Matter for Your Career)? If you’ve started researching fitness certifications, you’ve almost certainly run into ISSA. The International Sports Sciences Association has been around since 1988, and in that time they’ve certified over one million fitness professionals across 174 countries. That’s not just impressive history. It has real…
You spent years developing skills that most professionals would need a decade to acquire. Leadership under pressure. Operational discipline. Logistics coordination across complex, high-stakes environments. The ability to adapt fast when everything changes. The problem is that the civilian job market doesn’t always know how to read those skills on paper. And too many veterans…
You want to help people. You are good at listening. You have a natural ability to ask the right question at the right time that shifts how someone sees their situation. And you keep wondering if life coaching could actually be a career. It can. And in 2026, it is a better time than ever…
By the end of this review, you’ll know exactly who this course is built for, what you’ll walk away able to do, where it falls short, and whether your career goals justify the investment. ☑️ Key Takeaways What a Hiring Manager Actually Thinks When They See This on Your Resume Let’s start with the signal…
Hiring managers are exhausted by the AI buzzword parade. Every resume that crosses their desk now says “AI-savvy.” Every cover letter mentions “leveraging generative AI.” But when the interview question hits — “Walk me through a specific problem you solved using AI at work” — most candidates go completely blank. That gap between claiming AI…
Python used to be a skill you needed to become a developer. Now it’s a skill you need to stay competitive in almost every field. Hiring managers aren’t just looking for software engineers who code Python. They’re hiring marketing analysts who can automate reports, operations professionals who can parse data without IT help, and healthcare…
We talk to hiring managers every day who say the same thing: they have plenty of applicants who claim to be “familiar with AI,” but almost no one who can hold a real conversation about it. They can’t explain what machine learning actually does. They confuse generative AI with search engines. They use the word…
The background check used to be the last thing that happened before you got the job offer. It was a formality. A final confirmation that you were who you said you were. That era is over. A new report released this week by First Advantage, one of the world’s largest background screening providers, paints a…
We talk to hiring managers constantly who tell us the same thing: they have stacks of applicants who claim to know “data” but can’t tell a data warehouse from a data mart, let alone build a dashboard that actually drives a decision. The gap between “I took some analytics courses” and “I can build you…
The AI Agent Manager is one of the most interesting roles to interview for right now — precisely because it’s so new. Most hiring managers writing these job descriptions are partly figuring it out as they go. The HBR piece that formally defined the role was published in February 2026. The people interviewing you may…
