As a Senior Relocation Specialist, has supported more than 2,000 individuals and families in settling into Hungary — handling everything from immigration and legal procedures to housing, schooling, and orientation programs.

What sets her work apart is her belief that every relocation is more than logistics than it is about people. She brings a human-centered approach to every project, ensuring that clients, many from global multinational companies, feel supported, informed, and at home.

Throughout her career, she has led and mentored colleagues, using CRM and RICSI to enhance efficiency, and maintained strong relationships with both clients and authorities. Szilvia's academic background in Human Resources and professional roots in law and foreign trade have helped her bridge cultural and administrative gaps with precision and empathy.

Whether she is coordinating projects or helping HR teams with professional advice, she remains passionate about making them smooth, respectful, and genuinely welcoming.

When she is not working, you’ll find her walking, reading, traveling, or cooking something inspired by her travels and local roots.
 

1. Where did you grow up?

I grew up in a village close to Buda side, among hills and where time seemed slower.

2. If you could be an expat anywhere in the world, where would you choose?

Italy and Spain! For the food, the history, and the magic which you can find everywhere in the old buildings, in the countryside, in the sea.

3. What would you miss most if you moved away from Hungary?

The lake Balaton and River Danube, the Hungarian nature as to mix humour with hardship, which is uniquely Hungarian, the rhythm of the Hungarian language.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?

Walk the Chain Bridge at night, try a ruin pub, a lazy walk through Buda Castle, walk around the inner city to see the old and historical buildings built in the time of the great Hungarian called Széchenyi.

5. What is your favourite food?

Grilled fish by Lake Balaton and seafoods.

6. What is your favourite sport / form of exercise?

Long walks alone or with good company, cycling, table tennis and badminton.

7. What is your favourite place in Hungary?

Lake Balaton, Sopron and the River Danube and the countryside around.

8. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?

A travel writer — I’d love to collect stories and Flavors around the world.

9. What’s a job you would definitely never want?

Anything that treats people like replaceable machines.

10. Where did you spend your last vacation?

By Lake Balaton, watching sunsets like I’d never seen them before and Austria visiting nice castles, historical places.

11. Where do you hope to spend your next one?

Lake Balaton it is a love forever, Italy or Spain.

12. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?

Queen, their music is beautiful and taught me courage, Bryan Adams, Santana, Gary Moore.

13. Apart of temptation what can't you resist?

A walk at a nice place to see the nature and its living beings.

14. Red wine or white?

I love both — it depends on the company.

15. Book or movie?

Book, especially if it smells like an old library.

16. Morning person or night person?

I’m both, depending on what life asks of me.

17. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?

Education—because every child deserves a chance to dream and protecting our planet.

18. Buda or Pest side?

Both — like yin and yang, they complete each other.

19. Which achievement in your life are you most pleased about?

Helping people find solutions when others only saw problem and staying true to my values at Settlers.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?

It is not the destination that matters, but the journey that leads there.