Meet Daryna
Daryna Sasaki is the founder of FigureRecruitmentOut (FRO), a career strategy platform focused on interview performance and professional positioning. Based in Osaka, Japan, she has spent seven years working across global hiring markets, supporting professionals and companies across more than ten industries.
Daryna has a way of making complex hiring systems feel human again. In an industry driven by speed, metrics, and constant noise, she moves with clarity and restraint. Her work isn’t about chasing trends or manufacturing confidence, it’s about helping people understand their value and express it clearly, even when the market feels overwhelming. At the center of everything she does is a simple belief: most people don’t fail because they lack talent, but because they’re not truly seen.
Learning the Language of Hiring
She started her career in 2019 as a junior recruiter, learning the craft from the inside out. Early on, she was immersed in the mechanics of hiring—screening, interviews, negotiations, placements. Over time, she moved through different markets and agencies, including a Swiss boutique firm where she achieved a 100% offer acceptance rate.
Working across IT, pharmaceuticals, biotech, finance, manufacturing, and banking exposed her to how dramatically expectations shift between industries and regions. It also demanded adaptability. There was no single formula only patterns to observe, standards to decode, and constant learning. She describes those years as requiring real “doer energy,” the kind that comes from being fully present and accountable in fast-moving environments.
The Moment Everything Clicked
The turning point came when Daryna began noticing something unsettling and consistent. Highly capable candidates were being passed over, while others advanced with less experience but stronger clarity.
“Talent is rarely the issue, positioning is,”
Watching this happen repeatedly reshaped how she understood hiring. Interviews weren’t mysterious gatekeepers; they were skills. And skills could be practiced, refined, and mastered.
This realization pushed her beyond traditional recruitment. She began focusing not just on matching resumes to roles, but on teaching people how to translate their value across industries, markets, and expectations. What mattered wasn’t only what someone had done, but how clearly they could communicate it in the room.
The Work She Does Now
Today, through FigureRecruitmentOut, Daryna helps professionals stand out in a global hiring landscape where recruiters are stretched thin and most applications blur together. Her work is grounded in real-world experience, over 500 successful hires, 900+ clients, and years spent on both sides of the interview table.
She works with people who are often “qualified but ignored,” helping them sharpen their positioning, interview presence, and negotiation confidence. Her approach is practical and current, shaped by what actually works now not advice frozen in a different hiring era.
What matters most to her isn’t virality or numbers, but longevity.
“Staying in touch with candidates years later and hearing, ‘You helped me get hired, that’s the real impact,”
For Daryna, excellence in recruitment is measured by lasting trust, not quick wins.
Looking Ahead
Her vision for the future is quiet but intentional. She’s focused on creating more with purpose new collaborations, deeper learning spaces, and tools that help people carry their value confidently into any room. She believes in steady progress, not performative hustle, and in investing in oneself before chasing external validation.
Closing Reflection: Progress Over Perfection
Daryna often defines success in small, honest terms a good coffee, a clear inbox, forward motion. She encourages people not to compare their beginnings to someone else’s milestones, and to remember that growth doesn’t have to be dramatic to be meaningful. In a world that romanticizes the rat race, her work is a reminder that getting just one percent better every day is more than enough.
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