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.
You nailed the interview. Now comes the part most candidates completely skip. Sending a strong thank you email after a job interview is one of the most straightforward ways to separate yourself from the competition. And yet, according to research cited by multiple hiring sources, only 24% of candidates actually do it. That means if…
You haven’t touched your LinkedIn in two years. Maybe longer. The profile photo is outdated, your headline still says your old job title, and your About section reads like it was written by a completely different person because it was. You know you need to fix it. You just don’t know where to start. Here’s…
Most returnship guides treat Morgan Stanley as a footnote after Goldman Sachs. That’s a mistake. Goldman Sachs invented the returnship. Morgan Stanley built something different. While other banks anchor their programs almost entirely in New York, Morgan Stanley has been quietly running one of the most globally distributed return-to-work programs in the industry. The 2026…
Why Women Bear the Biggest Burden of Career Gaps Career breaks happen to everyone. But they do not happen equally. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2025, women are 55.2% more likely than men to take career breaks, and their breaks last longer: an average of 19.6 months versus 13.9 months…
If you’ve had a career gap and want back into tech, most returnship content out there sends you to the same list of companies without actually explaining what each program is. Microsoft’s program has a name, a specific philosophy, and a very distinct candidate profile it’s looking for. That distinction matters enormously when you’re crafting…
You’ve already made the decision. You’re going back to work, and you know you need to update your skills to do it. You don’t need a pep talk. You need someone to point at the right certification and say: “That one. Do that one.” That’s exactly what this article is. No fluff, no “it depends…
We talk to hiring managers every day who share the same frustration: they’re drowning in data analytics candidates who can run a SQL query but can’t tell them what the data actually means for the business. That gap – between technical execution and strategic thinking – is exactly what separates the candidates who get hired…
Most returnship guides treat Amazon like just another big company with a reentry program. They list the basics — 16 weeks, paid, tech roles — and move on. That’s a mistake. Amazon’s returnship is fundamentally different from programs at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, or anywhere else because Amazon has something none of those companies have: a…
You worked hard to build a career. Then life happened. Maybe you stepped away to raise children, care for a family member, deal with a health situation, or simply take time to figure out what comes next. Now you want back in, and you want back in at the top level. The Goldman Sachs Returnship…
We talk to hiring managers every week who say the same thing: they post a data analyst role, get flooded with applications, and still can’t find someone who can actually build a meaningful Power BI dashboard from scratch. So here’s the real question. Does the Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Professional Certificate on Coursera actually…
