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About Human Capital Fund
Hiring deserves more care and structure than it often gets, because one well-chosen person can change how a team performs. Human Capital Fund is an owner-led, independent recruitment partner based in Budapest, built on local insight into the Hungarian talent market.
Since 2017, international companies and SMEs have relied on us to find the people they need, and seeing the right person make a team stronger is still the most rewarding part of the work. Recruitment, as we see it, means helping companies and people find each other so they can grow together.
Our clients are companies where a hire has direct business consequences, and who want a senior partner involved from the first brief to the final decision.
Magyarul
A Human Capital Fund budapesti székhelyű, független toborzási partner, amely Magyarországon működő cégeknek segít megtalálni a megfelelő vezetőket és szakembereket. Weboldalunk elsősorban angol nyelvű, mert ügyfeleink jelentős része külföldi tulajdonú vagy nemzetközi hátterű vállalat. Piacismeretünk és jelenlétünk viszont helyi: 2017 óta dolgozunk a magyar piacon, és jól ismerjük a hazai munkaadók és jelöltek elvárásait.
How We Deliver Recruitment Results in Hungary
Every search we run is guided by Fit5™, our framework for assessing fit and readiness. It goes beyond the CV to show where a person will add real value in the role.
Combined with targeted outreach and an established professional network, it connects companies with people who are ready to step in and bring the competencies the role requires. The process is structured, and flexible enough to adapt when circumstances change.
Each search is designed around its context: the company’s size, culture and goals. Hiring managers and stakeholders get clear communication and steady progress throughout.
Where needed, we challenge assumptions, and we take responsibility for supporting a sound hiring decision.
What Sets Us Apart as a Recruitment Partner
Independent Partner
Owner-led. Every search personally managed by a senior partner. Fully accountable.
Speed with Precision
When urgency matters, searches move quickly, with accuracy and confidentiality kept intact.
Deep Market Insight
Close knowledge of the Hungarian market: its pace, expectations and realities.
Targeted Outreach
Each search reaches the right talent pool, including both active and passive candidates.
Confidential Searches
Sensitive searches are handled outside your organisation, and information is shared only with the people who need it.
Everyone Aligned
Hiring managers, teams and candidates stay on the same page from start to finish.
Who We Work Best With
When a wrong hire would be costly, Human Capital Fund takes full ownership of the search in Hungary. Typical cases include hard-to-fill roles, confidential searches, new functions and team ramp-ups, where local market judgement matters and a weak shortlist is not an option. Companies with limited HR capacity or little local market insight often benefit most from this level of involvement.
Best fit: executive, specialist & ramp-up searches
Not the right fit for high-volume CV drops, parallel work with multiple agencies or purely transactional setups
What This Means in Practice
2-3 weeks
Time to shortlist
2-3 finalists
Qualified and motivated
90%+*
Retention at 18 months
*Based on projects completed 2021-2024
Our Values in Recruitment
Insight
Knowledge is only useful once it becomes practical insight. Clients get context for better decisions, and candidates see clearly what the job involves, demands and offers.
Integrity
Communication stays honest, private information stays protected, and commitments are kept. Our actions match our words.
Ownership
Staying close and responding fast keeps a search moving. If something stalls, we fix it; if things change, we adapt.
Clarity
Complex situations get simple explanations. Role briefs and feedback are clear, specific and actionable.
Partnership
Good partnership means listening, collaborating and challenging when needed. The focus stays on hires that last.
Friendliness
We’re direct, human and easy to work with, because relationships matter as much as results.
Meet the Founder of Human Capital Fund
My name is Anetta Vitáris, and I started Human Capital Fund to bring more structure, care and depth to hiring, especially when the stakes are high.
I first realised the strategic weight of recruitment as a hiring manager during a major ramp-up project, where I had to build a 35-person customer service team under tight deadlines. The support I received was administrative at best, reactive, heavy on HR language and far from a real partnership. That experience showed me recruitment could, and should, be done differently.
Later, I built and led the RPO business line of a global recruitment firm. That experience became the foundation of Human Capital Fund, a firm built for companies hiring in Hungary that need a stable, insight-driven recruitment partner.
What drives me most is seeing leaders breathe easier when the right person finally joins their team. The pressure lifts, momentum returns, and the business moves forward. That’s the standard we hold ourselves to in every project.
If this sounds like the partnership you’re looking for, let’s talk about your hiring needs in Hungary.
A Small Team, Built for Reliability
Human Capital Fund is deliberately small and senior-led, and every search runs on the same structured framework, Fit5™.
You always know where a search stands. Clear milestones are agreed at the start, updates follow at every stage, and a search keeps moving even if someone is on leave or unavailable, because nothing depends on a single point of contact.
This structure, combined with an established professional network, means we’re able to scale up when a project calls for it.
Meet Our Talent Partner
Katalin Lőrincz is a Talent Partner at Human Capital Fund, supporting searches led by a senior partner. She brings a diverse background spanning the corporate world, entrepreneurship and coaching.
Her experience of both working within organisations and building her own ventures gives her a practical understanding of the realities businesses and leaders face, while her background as a certified coach and her current Master’s studies in Psychology bring an additional perspective to understanding candidate motivation and assessing fit with the role and organisation.
At HCF, she works within the Fit5™ methodology and search framework that guide every assignment we deliver, combining structured search and assessment with a deeper understanding of the human factors behind successful, long-term hiring decisions.
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