Apr 2024 – Feb 2025 · 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Enabling the Value Chain: Business Strategy → People Strategy → People Outcomes → Business Outcomes
• Scaling Talent for AMD’s Artificial Intelligence Business Unit (AI BU), Adaptive Embedded Computing Group (AECG), and Sales teams.
• Building and Strengthening the TA Team, developing a high-performing recruitment function to support AMD’s growth. (managing a team of 11 recruiters).
• Driving Campus Recruitment by fostering strong industry-academia partnerships and positioning AMD as an employer of choice through strategic initiatives and recruitment marketing.
• Championing DEI Initiatives, including Return to Work programs and LeadIN, to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Leading Employer Branding Efforts, focusing on New Hire Onboarding (NIO) and elevating the candidate experience.

Aug 2019 – Apr 2024 · 4 yrs 8 mos

• TA Adviser | Marketer | Strategist | Storyteller
• Leading Technology Recruitment & Campus Recruitment for India and APAC regions
• I am a critical partner to the business; I am acting as a strategic advisor for hiring managers and executives on a variety of talent issues. Helping our teams to scale in India, APAC and ANZ regions.

May 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• As a Talent Acquisition Manager, I drive the hiring of top industry talent for Tala India.
• Build and set up the Talent Acquisition strategy.
• Be a trusted advisor to the leadership team
• Drive Branding initiatives to attract top talent.
• Don't join an easy crowd -- You won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform and achieve are high !

May 2015 – May 2018 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Executing on the business priority of recruiting and hiring the best talent in the industry for R&D Storage & Cloud teams at VMware.
• Collaborate with Hiring Managers on staffing plans/budgets, then develop and execute recruitment plans accordingly
• Understand and improve our internal recruitment processes to make them more effective and efficient, while upholding quality measures, volume in pipelines, and closure attainment – along with providing a great recruitment experience to candidates
• Involve in the interview process by verifying candidates culture fit in the organization,Understand the local market conditions, as well as best practices and trends in recruitment
• Develop and communicate a strong employment brand
• Get in touch to explore career opportunities @ VMware on amanchala@vmware.com

Jul 2014 – May 2015 · 10 mos

• Thousands of applicants each month - No prob !
• Handling business account, executing innovative sourcing strategies, enhancing employee referrals, designing programs to excel diversity hiring, People Interactions, Behavioural Interviews.
• Identifying candidates by utilizing multiple sourcing strategies including: conducting coding competitions to hire top talent, cold calling into competitive companies, sourcing on line databases and social media sites, Boolean searching on internet portals, job boards, contact lists, networking and also optimizing use of employee referrals, and attending industry, diversity related events, meet ups to build strong relationships with potential high-quality candidates to ensure a viable talent pipeline, possess ability to manage multiple talent pipeline(s) – high volume & critical jobs, work with TA, HRBP Partners and hiring managers to generate ideas, leverage resources and share information that creates more effective search process.
• Social Media evangelist focusing on building a strong pipeline of super talented workforce for business needs by using all kinds of tools and resources to uncover the best untapped talent in the world, with keen focus to Social Recruiting, Networking, Relationships, Advanced Boolean Search, Internet Research, Advanced Sourcing Techniques, Resume Screening, Technical screening, Talent Mapping, Talent Mining of qualified leads via Open Web sourcing strategies using LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and other Social Media outlets & using complex Boolean search strings to create a talent pipeline to meet the current and future needs across the business.
• Spread the McAfee LOVE by networking, attending events, e-meetups, etc.

Apr 2011 – Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Thrive hard to create wow experience in Full life cycle recruitment (Identifying candidate, connecting, understanding, discussing, mapping to role, motivating, offering, on boarding)
• As a part of Vast Talent Acquisition team, I partnered with the India leaders and their teams to provide subject matter expertise related to all aspects of talent hiring via social media and social brand management.
• Understand the latest trends on the Internet particularly in social media, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, Forums, and other Internet community based sites to build talent pipeline.
• Mining skilled professionals to build talent pipeline by advance search techniques using Boolean operators and various search operators (site, inurl, intitle, define, filetype.. etc).
• Competitive analysis:
• Company mapping, product mapping, skill set mapping, level/band levels, team size, company size.
• Market intelligence:
• Targeted competitive firms hiring for similar roles, salaries, skill availability, location limitations etc..
• Data Management:
• Structuring hiring data after extracting from legacy Applicant tracking systems, bundles of excel files, Online applications, proactive and reactive sourcing, employee referrals and special programs including drives, events, conferences, etc..