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Vanessa
Former McKinsey Senior Recruiter & Zeiss CVC | Insights from the Other Side of the Table | CV & Personal Fit Mastery
Personal Experience Interview
CV
personal fit
Deutsch, Englisch
Spanien (UTC +2)
189 USD / h
Former McKinsey Senior Recruiter & Zeiss CVC | Insights from the Other Side of the Table | CV & Personal Fit Mastery
Personal Experience Interview
CV
personal fit
189 USD / h
Statistiken
Consulting
2 Coachings
606 Q&A Upvotes
2 Awards

I spent 7 years inside McKinsey & Company, learning the firm’s operating rhythm at the highest level. I started my career working directly alongside (Senior) Partners, understanding exactly how top-tier decision-makers evaluate talent and performance. During this time, I consistently ranked in the top 3% to 7% within Germany.

I then transitioned into my core expertise: Recruiting. As a Senior Recruiter for McKinsey, I managed target university pipelines, ran interview days, and directed the Capstone retention program. Following McKinsey, I joined ZEISS Group as a Senior Recruiter, partnering directly with Ex-MBB hiring managers to build teams in Corporate Strategy, Business Innovation, and Ventures.

From more than 2500 interviews and candidate interactions, I know the actual HR screening logics, the benchmarks, and why candidates fail the Personal Interviews or PEI. Today, I am the founder of Curate Futures, building top-tier recruiting systems for organizations and positioning ambitious candidates for success.

 

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I secure your blind spots during the most critical phases: passing the initial CV screen and commanding the Personal Experience Interview (PEI). My approach works on your profile, your narrative and your process. What we build is what a screener sees in the first seconds and what an interviewer remembers afterwards. I ask tough questions so the actual interview is feeling easy.

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5,0
2 Reviews
21. Okt. 2026
von Anonym
Interview-Coaching
The second session confirmed what I already thought after the first: Vanessa is a great sparring partner. She gives honest, direct feedback without sugarcoating and actively brings in her own ideas. One concrete takeaway for me was to get to the point faster in my answers instead of over-explaining. I left the session much more motivated and can now approach the rest of the process with a calmer mind, without overthinking every step. If you value honest feedback and want to genuinely improve, she’s the right coach for you.
19. Okt. 2026
von Anonym
Interview-Coaching
Vanessa is incredibly empathetic and immediately creates a comfortable, open atmosphere. She quickly put herself in my position as a candidate and looked at my background holistically rather than just ticking off individual points. What helped me most was learning how to read certain signals in the process, for example from HR, in a realistic and neutral way instead of reading too much into them. She also remembers details and picks them up again later. On top of that, she was very flexible with scheduling. Highly recommended!
Arbeitserfahrung
Founder
Curate Futures
2026 - Jetzt

I prepare candidates for the selection processes of top-tier consulting and venture capital firms: the measurable spike in your track record, a profile built to the standard it will be screened against, and a personal interview narrative that holds under real pushback.

Senior Recruiter
ZEISS
2023 - 2026

As Senior Recruiter I advised hiring managers, many of them former strategy consultants, on filling strategic key positions and evaluating top talent.

Senior Recruiter / Teamlead
McKinsey & Company
2016 - 2023

As a Senior Recruiter I focused on target university sourcing, master's graduate hiring, interview execution and candidate retention.

Ausbildung
Masterstudent:in
Universität Koblenz-Landau
2014 - 2016
Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften
Letzter Monat
Community-Star
Top 10 | 22 Antworten
Vanessa hat im letzten Monat 22 Antworten im Q&A verfasst.
Q&A-Experte
Top 10 | 233 Upvotes
Vanessas Antworten aus dem letzten Monat haben 233 Upvotes erhalten.
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Community-Star
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Q&A-Experte
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Coaching-Angebote
Interview-Coaching
60 Minuten
5,0
2 Bewertungen
189 USD
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CV-Review
30 Minuten
139 USD
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Interview-Coaching + CV-Review
90 Minuten
319 USD
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