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.
If you’ve got an interview coming up at Giant Eagle, the good news is that most people walk out saying it was friendlier and lower pressure than they expected. The company has been around since 1931 and is one of the 40 largest family-operated companies in the US, and that family feel shows up in…
Pacific Dental Services isn’t your average dental group. Founded in 1994, it now supports over 630 supported offices across 20 states, running a decentralized “Private Practice+” model where owner dentists keep clinical control and PDS handles the business side. That structure matters for your interview. If you’re applying at the office level, the people across…
If you’re interviewing at Bright Horizons, you’re walking into one of the biggest names in early childhood education and employer-sponsored child care. That means the people across the table care just as much about who you are with kids and families as they do about your resume. Most candidates prep by memorizing answers. The ones…
Here’s the thing nobody tells you about applying to Colgate-Palmolive: you’ll likely face two screens before a human ever talks to you. First an online aptitude or cognitive assessment (mostly multiple choice), then a one-way recorded video interview where you answer questions to a camera with no interviewer on the other end. A lot of…
D.R. Horton is the largest homebuilder in the country, and the scale shows up fast when you start preparing. The company closed 89,690 homes in fiscal year 2024 and employs roughly 14,200 people, so whatever role you’re chasing, you’re joining a serious operation. Here’s the thing most candidates miss. D.R. Horton runs on a decentralized,…
If you love books, music, movies, and the smell of a good used-book aisle, a job at Half Price Books probably feels less like work and more like a hobby with a paycheck. But wanting the job and getting it are two different things. Here’s the good news. The interview is usually casual and short,…
You got the email. It mentions the CCAT, gives you a deadline, and suddenly your stomach drops. Fifty questions in fifteen minutes with no calculator sounds designed to make you fail. Breathe. The CCAT (Criteria Cognitive Aptitude Test) is a cognitive aptitude test built by Criteria Corp, and it’s hard by design, not by accident….
KB Home has been building homes since 1957, and it has put up more than 680,000 of them along the way. That history shows up in the interview, because the people hiring you care a lot about relationships, customer obsession, and whether you actually get what makes a personalized, built-to-order home different. The good news…
If you’ve got an interview coming up at Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, here’s the good news: most people describe it as one of the least stressful interviews they’ve ever done. Glassdoor users rate the difficulty just 2 out of 5, and the whole thing often wraps up in 10 to 30 minutes with a single store…
L’Oreal’s Digital Assessment is the first real gate after you apply. It’s a one-way screen: two typed written answers and one recorded video answer, hosted on L’Oreal’s own careers portal. Here’s the thing that trips people up. Lots of candidates go searching for a HireVue or Pymetrics login that doesn’t exist here. L’Oreal runs its…
