Hena Dapo

Tech Recruiter & Embedded Talent Acquisition

Tech Recruitment Certified Professional
Deep-Tech & Engineering Recruiter
100+ Technical Roles Filled Across Europe

Hena Dapo is a technical recruiter and the founder of Dapo Talent Partners, an embedded recruitment studio serving deep-tech and industrial scale-ups across the DACH region and Western Europe. She specializes in hard-to-fill roles in photonics, semiconductors, robotics, autonomous systems, and advanced manufacturing, owning the full hiring cycle from employer branding and sourcing through candidate experience and onboarding. Over 6+ years she has delivered full-cycle recruitment for 100+ mid-to-senior technical roles, served 30+ clients, and built a track record that includes a 92% offer acceptance rate and 94% 90-day retention rate. Earlier, she oversaw sourcing and hiring for the Leadership Development Internship at RippleMatch, an AI-powered early-career hiring platform in New York. Hena is a Tech Recruitment Certified Professional and holds an MS in International Business from the International University of Sarajevo. She works in English, German, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian.

Facts

Her passive candidate outreach gets a 40 to 52% reply rate on senior roles, about 2.5x the industry benchmark, so she knows exactly what makes a candidate profile worth responding to.

She holds a 94% 90-day retention rate across placements, meaning her candidate screening judgment is validated by who actually stays in the job.

Experience

Founder & Embedded Talent Partner
2019 - Present
Founder & Embedded Talent Partner
Embedded Talent Acquisition
2026 - Present
Embedded Talent Acquisition
Talent Acquisition Consultant
2019 - Present
Talent Acquisition Consultant
Senior Recruiting Coordinator
2021 - 2022
RippleMatch

Education

MS in International Business
International University of Sarajevo
Tech Recruitment Certified Professional
Performance-Based Hiring
Technical Recruiting
Organisational Learning and Development

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Hena Dapo

Facts

Her passive candidate outreach gets a 40 to 52% reply rate on senior roles, about 2.5x the industry benchmark, so she knows exactly what makes a candidate profile worth responding to.

Her passive candidate outreach gets a 40 to 52% reply rate on senior roles, about 2.5x the industry benchmark, so she knows exactly what makes a candidate profile worth responding to.

She holds a 94% 90-day retention rate across placements, meaning her candidate screening judgment is validated by who actually stays in the job.

Experience

Founder & Embedded Talent Partner

Embedded Talent Acquisition

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Senior Recruiting Coordinator

Education

MS in International Business

Tech Recruitment Certified Professional

Performance-Based Hiring

Technical Recruiting

Organisational Learning and Development

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Everything you need to land the job!

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Everything you need to land the job!