Amruta Warkad

🔹 Built and manage RTS's flagship retail account from inception in 2018 to a $20M+ engagement with 120+ active consultants — one of the company's largest and most strategic client relationships. 🔹 Lead and mentor a cross-border team of recruiters based in India — setting KPIs, conducting performance reviews, and implementing formal PIPs with documented outcomes to drive measurable uplift in team productivity and submission quality. 🔹 Pioneered an AI-powered recruiting workflow using ChatGPT and LLMs across the full hiring lifecycle — driving measurable improvement in submission-to-interview conversion rate and overall placement quality. 🔹 Align talent acquisition strategy directly with organizational EBITDA goals — balancing hiring velocity, bill rate optimization, and resource utilization to support margin targets. 🔹 Advising an internal product team on a proprietary AI-driven ATS (pre-production) — contributing expertise on LLM integration, recruiter workflow design, and feature prioritization. 🔹 Established weekly reporting dashboards tracking requisitions, submissions, interview conversions, and fill rates — creating full leadership visibility into TA performance. 🔹 Recognized as the organization's go-to SME for evaluating new job portals, technical screening platforms, and TA tools before company-wide rollout. 🔹 Interface directly with VMS platforms (Fieldglass, Beeline), hiring managers, and director-level client stakeholders — stepping in for Account Managers during key client engagements as needed. 🔹 Serve as Immigration SME — managing end-to-end H1B, OPT, CPT, TN, and GC processes for active consultants in coordination with external immigration attorneys. 🔹 Regularly consulted by senior leadership on headcount planning, TA team structure, and organizational process improvements. 🔹 Partner with HR leadership to translate recruiting ground realities into formal HR policies and organizational frameworks.

▪ Led full-lifecycle IT talent acquisition for the Commercial vertical across Retail, Telecom, and Real Estate — managing 10–12 requisitions concurrently and placing 72+ candidates in a single 12-month period. ▪ Sourced and placed consultants across all work authorization types (US Citizens, GC, EAD, OPT, TN, H1B) on C2C, W2, and 1099 engagements; utilized Bullhorn, Zoho ATS, and Workday. ▪ Grew the retail client account significantly through consistent delivery, strong HM relationships, and proactive pipeline management — laying groundwork for the $20M engagement. ▪ Managed immigration queries for consultants and coordinated with attorneys on visa filings; provided weekly pipeline and onboarding reports to account managers and leadership.

Manage a team of Recruiters to perform full-lifecycle technical recruiting that includes sourcing, screening and interviewing potential consultants for different opportunities. Apply different sourcing strategies including cold calling, Job Sites, Networking, Ad responses, Internet sourcing and referrals. Involved in providing IT professionals for consulting assignments on contract, contract for hire, and permanent basis with the employment type of C2C (Corp-to-Corp), W2 and 1099 for our direct clients and strategic partners. Skilled in dealing with people from different Immigration status US Citizens, Green Cards, EAD, and H1Bs. Utilize internal portal, databases, external job sites and networking portals for sourcing best consultants in the market that matches with client’s requirements. Managing HR & immigration queries for the employees and consultants.

Business Unit HR - Banking & Financial Services - Key responsibilities handled Induction & Onboarding HR Induction program - comprehensive session covering HR policies and procedures. Monthly meeting with the new joinees on issues & concerns Performance Management Driving the end to end performance management cycle comprising of performance planning, appraisal workshops, annual appraisals & review, normalization for the Business Unit. Rewards & Recognition - Handling the Annual Increments Exercise at the BU level - Handling the Annual Incentives Exercise at the BU level - Handling the Annual Awards Exersice at the Bu level Employee Seperation process - Attrition Analysis for the Business Unit. - Handling employee separation process and promote retention of talented professionals. Employee Motivation & Communication - Driving the annual employee engagement survey, communication of results, focus group discussions, formulation and deployment of action plans. - Conduct half yearly BU Open House - Working on devising a Onsite Connect Model Others - Independantly handled client audits - Worked on RFI's & RFP's - Independantly handled Internal Quality audits fro the HR team. - Successfully launched special interest groups like Guitar Academy

Management Trainee - Corporate Human Resources Domestic Compensation Overseas Compensation