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.
We talk to hiring managers all the time who say the same thing: IT candidates who know their way around a help desk are everywhere. Someone who can actually script a solution, automate a process, or debug a broken deployment? That’s where the shortlist gets short. Does the Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate…
Getting a carpentry job isn’t just about what you can build. It’s about convincing a hiring manager in thirty to sixty minutes that you’re the kind of person they can trust on a job site, around other trades, and in front of clients. That’s a different skill set entirely, and most carpenters walk in underprepared…
Getting a job as an auto mechanic has never been more competitive — or more opportunity-rich. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 4% job growth for automotive service technicians through 2034, and with a wave of experienced techs aging out of the workforce, shops are actively looking for people who can step in and contribute…
We talk to hiring managers every day who tell us the same thing: they have plenty of data analyst applicants who know what tools are, but almost no one can explain what they did with those tools and why it mattered to the business. Does the Meta Data Analyst Professional Certificate fix that problem? Or…
Why Librarian Interviews Are Different From Most Job Interviews If you’ve prepared for interviews in other fields, you might be in for a surprise when you sit down with a library hiring committee. Most library interviews are scored. The panelists in the room often have a rubric in front of them, and your answers are…
We talk to hiring managers every week who say the same thing: they have plenty of IT support applicants, but almost no one can walk through a real troubleshooting workflow without freezing. That is the gap these certificates are designed to close. But not all of them do it equally well. If you are researching…
When a hiring manager leans across the table and asks you to describe your work ethic, it might feel like one of those soft, filler questions between the harder stuff. It isn’t. This question is doing a lot of heavy lifting behind the scenes, and how you answer it tells the interviewer far more about…
You use AI every day. Maybe it’s drafting emails, summarizing documents, generating code, or pulling together research. But here’s the thing: so does every other candidate walking into that interview room. What separates a strong candidate from the rest is not that you use AI. It’s whether you trust it blindly or whether you actually…
By the end of this review, you’ll know exactly who this certificate is built for, what a hiring manager actually thinks when they see it, which courses deserve your full attention, and whether it’s worth your time before you spend a single dollar. We talk to hiring managers every day who say the same thing…
You nailed the interview. The conversation flowed, you had great answers, the hiring manager seemed genuinely excited. Then… nothing. Days pass. Then a week. Then two. If this has happened to you recently, you’re not alone. According to recent data, 61% of candidates experience post-interview ghosting, and that number has climbed by 9 percentage points…
