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Former McKinsey Senior Recruiter & Zeiss CVC | Insights from the Other Side of the Table | CV & Personal Fit Mastery
Personal Experience Interview
CV
personal fit
English, German
Spain (UTC +2)
USD 149 / 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
USD 149 / h
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192 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.

Interested? Learn more about how I work:

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.

Interested? Learn more about how I work:
Work Experience
Founder
Curate Futures
2026 - now

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.

Education
Master student
Universität Koblenz-Landau
2014 - 2016
Media and communication sciences
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