Hena Dapo

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.
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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

  1. Founder & Embedded Talent Partner

    2019 - Present

    Founder & Embedded Talent Partner

  2. Embedded Talent Acquisition

    2026 - Present

    Embedded Talent Acquisition

  3. Talent Acquisition Consultant

    2019 - Present

    Talent Acquisition Consultant

  4. Senior Recruiting Coordinator

    2021 - 2022

    RippleMatch

Education

  1. MS in International Business

    International University of Sarajevo

  2. Tech Recruitment Certified Professional

  3. Performance-Based Hiring

  4. Technical Recruiting

  5. Organisational Learning and Development