1. ZSOLT PINTÉR
Honorary Professor of Human Resources and
Career Management at the Pécs University
Institute of Adult Education and Human Resources Development
Author of the blockbuster jobhunting handbook titled
“How to build a career? – Encyclopaedia of job searching”
Vice-President Central-Eastern Europe of Horton International
Mr. Zsolt Z. Pintér (in some countries also called Z. Z. Pinteer) is a Hungarian-born
international economist-lawyer, diplomat and foreign trade expert, well-known
“headhunter” and career advisor, famous about his “corresponding career-columns” in the
press, the radio and television. He is widely recognised as the “guru” of the Central East
European executive hiring, specialist in Western-Eastern cross-culture and HR issues of
economic transition.
He had been graduated to MSc. Economics and Political Sciences (Diplomacy) abroad in
1983 (MGIMO-Moscow), then persued studies in Foreign Trade at the Karl Marx University
of Economics (today Corvinus) and Law at the Lorand Eötvös University of Sciences.
Started to work as diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then changed for the field of
export-import and international sales performing in various executive positions.
In 1989 Mr. Pintér founded with his wife the extremely successful and rapidly growing East
European executive search firm “Manager Contact Executive Search Ltd.” of which since
then he has been the co-owner and CEO.
In 1992 “Manager Contact Executive Search Ltd.” was the winner of the competition of
the Hungarian State Property Agency among 57 personnel consulting companies and got
the opportunity to search for executives to head transformed state companies. From 1990 having
become Partner and Vice-President of Horton International in East Europe, the well-
known leading worldwide executive search firm (45 offices in 40 countries), currently the
“fastest growing amongst the leading group of international executive search firms”
(Financial Times) Mr. Pintér co-ordinates the activity of the Budapest, Bucharest, Moscow,
St.Petersburg, Kiev, Bratislava, Prague and Warsaw offices.
Mr. Pintér is the personal advisor of several business and political decision-makers in
East Europe, and he is the “doyen” of headhunting and career consulting. As owner of the
outplacement consulting and jubhunting training centre named after him “Pinteer Institute &
Management Centre” regularly performs a lot of lectures for various university and college
students, some called “Pintér-show”. Since 1995 Pintér prepares hundreds of students for
the techniques and tricks of successful jobhunting and addresses various international
student’s conferences on career topics.. He is the Honorary Professor of Human Resources
and Career Management at the Pécs University of Sciences. He published a great number of
studies, articles and textbooks on HR management as well.
In his uniquely up-to-date, absolutely practical and remarkably comprehensive handbook
“How to build a career? – Encyclopaedia of job searching” the well-reputed international
executive search consultant and Central-Eastern-European career expert shares with his readers
his more than a decade international experience in East Europe in the field of
“headhunting” and career-consulting: since 1989 Mr. Pintér “placed” every year 25-40 top- or

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senior executives and managers at the most famous “blue-chip” East-European and
multinational companies.
His jobhunting handbook is based on his headhunting and career-consulting experience and
on the hundreds of cases, questions, practical problems of Central-Eastern-European
readers, listeners and viewers, people facing the challanges of economies in transition.
Accordingly this absolutely practical handbook reflects to the maximum extent the East-
European reality (countries rapidly transiting from centralised systems to market economy) and
the very special conditions of the Central-Eastern-European job-seekers.