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.
Crime analyst interviews don’t look like most office interviews you’ve sat through. You’re usually facing a panel of law enforcement managers and senior analysts, your answers get scored against a rubric, and somewhere in the process you’ll probably be handed a written exercise or a data set to interpret. That structure rewards a very specific…
Teaching English is one of those jobs where the interview is basically a live demonstration of your craft. You’re being judged on how clearly you communicate, how you think on your feet, and whether you can make a hiring panel believe their students would be lucky to have you. And the range of roles is…
Stepping up from agent to supervisor changes the entire interview. Suddenly nobody cares how nicely you handle one angry caller. They want to know how you build a team that handles thousands of them well, every single day. That shift trips up a lot of strong candidates. You walk in ready to talk about empathy…
Solar is one of the few trades where demand is running well ahead of the people available to do the work. The BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook for Solar Photovoltaic Installers projects 42% job growth from 2024 to 2034, with a median annual wage of $51,860 and the top 10% earning more than $80,150. That growth…
Controls engineering sits right where hardware meets software, and that makes the interview different from almost any other engineering role. One minute you’re talking control theory, the next you’re explaining how you’d diagnose a line that just went dark at 2am. The good news is that demand is real. The BLS projects 7 percent job…
Labor and delivery is one of the few nursing specialties where you handle the best day of someone’s life and, sometimes, the worst, often inside the same shift. Hiring managers know that, so the interview is built to test whether you can stay clinically sharp and emotionally steady at the same time. This isn’t a…
CDL interviews aren’t like most job interviews, and if you walk in treating one like a regular sit-down chat, you’ll feel it fast. Recruiters are legally on the hook for every driver they put behind the wheel, so they’re screening for safety, honesty, and regulatory knowledge before they care about anything else. The good news…
Landing a die maker job isn’t about reciting textbook definitions. Whoever’s sitting across from you, a shop supervisor, a lead die maker, or an HR screener, wants proof you can hold a tolerance, read a complicated print, and figure out why a die is throwing bad parts at 2am during a production run. That’s true…
Interviewing at Meta feels different from almost anywhere else, and not because the questions are impossible. It’s because the loop is built to measure very specific things: how you scale your thinking, how you back decisions with data, and how comfortable you are when the ground keeps shifting under you. Whether you’re targeting a Software…
Bailiff interviews aren’t like most protective service interviews, and that catches a lot of strong candidates off guard. You can have years of security or military experience and still stumble, because the panel wants to see that you understand the courtroom specifically, not just how to keep order in a parking lot. The role sits…
