Varian Medical Systems Customer Story
500+ Annual Hires
US & LATAM
Enterprise RPO
Onsite & Virtual Delivery
Varian Medical Systems Reduced Global Recruitment Costs by 62%
Varian Medical Systems Inc. is an international radiation oncology treatment and software developer. They specialize in creating medical devices and a broad range of solutions for the treatment of cancer and other medical conditions.
Based in Palo Alto, California, Varian operates in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa, bringing treatments and cutting-edge products to those in need around the world and empowering healthcare providers to make a difference in the communities they serve. Currently employing over 10,000 people across their 34 global locations, Varian’s workforce is made up of dedicated niche specialists with a genuine passion to help people.
Varian Medical Systems’ Challenge
Varian was experiencing difficulty with their candidate quality and the speed of their recruitment process. They worked with multiple third-party recruitment agencies but still found that they had difficulty securing the right talent for their niche roles. This problem wasn’t just contained to their US office but was widespread across many of their global locations.
They appointed a new Head of Talent to review and improve their current talent acquisition processes and agency relationships. The new Head of Talent was focused on reducing their agency spending and improving the outcomes of their recruiting efforts, securing leading talent, and creating a streamlined, global recruitment process that would sustainably source, attract and retain the right quality and quantity of talent they needed.
500+ Annual Hires
US, LATAM & EMEA RPO Support
Onsite Delivery
Building a Successful Talent Solution
Pierpoint was chosen to support the new Head of Talent in reviewing their recruitment processes and creating a scalable, high-touch strategy that would secure the niche talent they needed in their global offices. This required an on-site team embedded into their California-based headquarters. This on-site team assessed their current processes and devised an approach that would allow them to improve Varian’s candidate quality, time-to-hire, and reduce their recruitment costs for multiple job categories in niche specialisms.
Once the strategy was in place at HQ, Pierpoint deployed remote teams to support Varian’s other global locations to ensure a unified, branded approach was taken for all recruitment efforts. They facilitated all recruitment programs in the local language and improved the candidate experience, increasing the acceptance rate.
Delivering Impact
Through the strength of Pierpoint’s initial RPO solution and the global deployment of branded recruitment marketing, Varian was able to bring their recruiting in-house and significantly reduce their agency spending.
Due to the success of Pierpoint’s efforts to increase the quality of candidates targeted for their permanent roles, Varian then engaged us to support their contract requirements too. Pierpoint has been Varian’s trusted RPO partner for over seven years and continues to support all volume hiring across all job categories, providing 500+ hires for their global offices annually.
Project highlights for the 9+ year partnership include:
Reduced Talent Acquisition Costs: 62%
Avg. Submittal per Req: 3 – 4
Submit to Interview Ratio: 89%
Hiring Manager Satisfaction: 90%
Reduced Time-To-Fill: 26 days

RPO Highlights
3 – 4
Avg Submittal per Requisition
62%
Talent Acquisition Cost Reduction
89%
Submit to Interview Ratio
26 Days
Reduced Time-To-Fill
Recent Varian Medical Systems Placements
- Administrative Assistant
- ALM Support Engineer
- Buyer III
- Buyer Planner III
- CAD System Administrator
- Clinical Training Specialist
- Compensation Program Manager
- Compliance Specialist III
- Complaint Specialist
- Computer System Design Engineer
- Cost Accountant
- Customer Project Manager
- Designer V
- Director Quality Production Surveillance
- District Service Manager
- Electrical Engineer
- Electrical Engineer
- Electrical Engineer III
- Embedded Firmware Engineer
- Master Scheduler IV
- Field Service Engineer III
- Field Service Engineer II
- Field Service Engineer IV
- Field Service Manager
- Field Service Representative
- Forensic Investigations Manager
- HRIS Analyst
- Income Tax Manager
- Installation Manager III
- Installation Representative
- Installations Manager
- Installations Manager III
- Instructor Clinical
- Applications Physicist
- Interface Analyst Manager II
- Clinical Training Specialist
- Manufacturing Engineer III
- Market Development Manager
- Marketing & Compliance Specialist
- Medical Oncology Clinical Technical Support Specialist II
- Medical Oncology Specialist
- Mobile Developer
- Sales Software Systems
Operation Manager
- Product Compliance Engineer
- Product Design Engineer
- Product Manager, Oncology Informatics Analytics
- Product Manager, Oncology Information Systems
- Product Manager Interoperability (OIS)
- Manager Machine Shop
- Production Manager II
- Production Manager III
- QA Engineer
- Quality Affairs Analyst
- Quality Engineering Tech III
- Radiation Safety Officer
- Receptionist
- Regulatory Affairs Risk Manager
- Reliability Engineer IV
- Sales Manager
- SAP ABAP Development Lead
- SAP SD Analyst
- Senior Tax Analyst
- Software Engineer
- Sourcing Contract Manager
- Sr Global Quality Engineer
- Sr Global Quality Compliance Engineer
- Sr Manager of Regulatory Affairs
- Sr Manager Regulatory & Compliance
- Sr Manager Procurement
- Sr Regulatory Affairs
- SW Engineer
- SW QA Engineer
- SW QA Engineer III
- SW QA Engineer IV
- Technical Trainer
- UX Architect
- Systems Director Global CSS
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