Alexandre
Szigethy
Sales Manager,
Localization
specialist
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Personal Statement
Osvat utca 11
1073 Budapest
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Sales Manager and Business Development specialist with over 10 years of
professional experience. Skilled in communications, relationship management
and strategic planning.
Extensive knowledge of marketing processes, as well as languages and the
translation industry. Native-level Hungarian, English and French speaker - also
C1 Russian and B2 German and Spanish.
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Languages
Has a really nice fiancee. And great dogs.
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Skills
French: Native , Hungarian: Level C2, English: C1, Russian: C1, German: B2,
Spanish: B1, Serbian: B1, Turkish: A2
Proficient in MS Office, Outlook, Excel, Google Suite, GRMS, SEO, SEM, Google
Analytics, Wordpress
Intermediate knowledge of Photoshop
High verbal and written communication skills
Team player
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Experience
Language Experts group Hungary zrt./Sales manager
SEPTEMBER 2020 - PRESENT, Budapest
• Responsible for the company’s business development.
• Establishing B2B growth strategy, looking for business opportunities.
• In-depth market analysis of the localization industry.
• Copywriting online content.
• B2B lead generation, cold outreach, follow-up, scheduling meetings
throughout online and offline networking processes.
Self employed/Language teacher
SEPTEMBER 2010 - PRESENT, Budapest
• Part-time, occasional work teaching French, Hungarian and English to both
private students and as part of corporate language programs.
• Developing course framework and lesson plans, tailored to individual
student needs.
• Marketing to potential students using social media.
Self employed/Translator, proofreader
MAY 2019 - PRESENT, Budapest
• Contracts translating and proofreading press articles, interviews, and other
texts from Hungarian to French. Projects including:
- Full time Hungarian to French translator and proofreader for a prominent
News Agency in Hungary - MAY 2019 - MAY 2020
- Ad hoc translating and proofreading for Visegradpost.com newsportal
(April 2016 - PRESENT)
- French-Hungarian interview translation between Pierre-Alexandre
Bouclay, journalist for Valeurs Actuelles and Zoltan Kovacs, spokesman of the
Hungarian Government. (September 2015)
- French-Hungarian translations for Carré Sécurité in Budapest (Occasional
work between 2010 and 2014)
Immoral Productions kft./Production Assistant
OCTOBER 2016 TO MAY 2019, Budapest
• On-set interpretation, translating between Hungarian and/or Russian
speaking models and production team members, and translation of model
release contracts.
• Acting as a point of contact for agencies regarding booking management.
• Other on-set duties, including conflict resolution, and assistance operating
lights and camera.
FAO of the UN/HR Assistant
JANUARY 2016 TO SEPTEMBER 2019, Budapest
• HR clerk working largely within employee travel - checking security
clearance and entitlement to travel services, coordinating regularly with the
travel department.
•Employment administration, including preparing contracts for hiring,
promotions and terminations, and issuing documentation to new employees.
•Responding to routine queries and providing information to staff and
managers on HR procedures.
•Using GRMS, Excel and Outlook to manage daily activities.
•Processing payment requests in coordination with Payroll.
BPetmoi Networking BT/Sales Manager
APRIL 2014 - FEBRUARY 2016, Budapest
•Selling Google Street View for Business
•Contacting clients’ marketing and/or sales managers, discussing and
preparing business offers, following up with clients, and general process
management.
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Education
Metropolitan University/BA of Business and Marketing
SEPTEMBER 2017 - PRESENT, Budapest
Thesis: “A nyelv és nyelvtudás mint gazdasági szereplő :Nyelvészeti válaszok egy
gazdaságra épülő világban”
(Language and language knowledge as an economical actor: linguistic answers
in world built on economy)
Active member of the Marketing Workshop
ELTE BTK/Slavic Studies
SEPTEMBER 2010 - JUNE 2016, Budapest
Thesis: “Русские в Будапеште, культурная и повседневная жизнь”
(Russians in Budapest, cultural and everyday life)
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Achievements
October 2018, TEDx talk about language learning, Budapest
May 2016, « Le rôle des ONG et autres présences étrangères en Hongrie: modes
opératoires, financements, liens avec l'opposition hongroise et conséquences sur la
vie politique hongroise et le régime de Viktor Orbán. » Report ordered by the ENF
group of the European Parliament
TV and radio appearances including:
- 2021, “Ridikul”, on Duna TV
- 2020, “Reggeli műsor” on Retró rádió
- 2019, “Család barát” on Duna TV
- 2019, “Fókusz” on RTL Klub
