F5 helps the world’s largest organizations keep their apps and websites fast, reliable, and secure. Doing that takes a global workforce, a TA function built for a company in transformation, and someone who knows how to build recruiting infrastructure from the ground up.
Valerie Weingarten is the VP of Global Talent Acquisition at F5. She spent 16 years at Salesforce scaling recruiting through some of the fastest growth the tech industry has ever seen, then made the deliberate decision to start over somewhere smaller, harder, and more interesting.
In this episode, she talks about how F5 is using AI to eliminate low-value work so recruiters can spend more time in conversations that actually move candidates. She also gets into why revenue impact is the only TA metric worth bringing to a CEO, and what most interviewers get wrong in the first 15 minutes.
You’ll also hear:
- Why she walked away from a career in medicine and never looked back
- What she learned at Salesforce about process standardization, before you can automate anything
- How she thinks about the line between what AI should own and what humans should never give up
- Why the best candidate experiences are built on conversations, not campaigns
Connect with Valerie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyutterback
Learn more about F5: https://www.f5.com/
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