Christian Bloom

Current

• Sourcing Consultant at Christian Bloom Inc.

Past

• Staffing Consultant at Blurb
• Research Manager at techVenture Inc.
• Recruiting Coordinator & Sourcer at Bebo

• Recruiting Coordinator & Sourcer at Blurb
• Recruiting Coordinator & Sourcer at Six Apart
• Graduate Student Instructor at Princeton University

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Education

• Princeton University
• University of California, Berkeley

Connections

82 connections

Industry

Staffing and Recruiting

Christian Bloom’s Summary

I'm a sourcer with deep experience in the start-up world and other high-growth companies.

I am most experienced with web companies, but am comfortable with other areas, such as security and mobile software, or even the semiconductor industry .
I have enjoyed continuous engagements with high-growth companies from early-stage to late-stage, and have contributed to their growth by finding and qualifying candidates for engineering, finance, and business operations, as well as marketing, sales, and design.

Christian Bloom’s Experience

• Sourcing Consultant

  Christian Bloom Inc.

  (Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  I can support recruiters or companies directly.

• Staffing Consultant

  Blurb

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  November 2008 — May 2009 (7 months)

  Back to help Bus Ops and Finance with a few positions - Business Analyst, HR Manager, Staff Accountant, Revenue Accountant.

• Research Manager

  techVenture Inc.

  (Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  January 2006 — April 2009 (3 years 4 months)

  Sourced active and passive candidates, built a database of thousands of qualified candidates, created or edited and posted ads. Full use of web technologies for sourcing (job boards, social networking sites, alumni groups, usenet, mailing lists, conference/meeting rosters, etc.) and ad posting; advanced use of Boolean strings with search engines and intra-site search functions.
  
  Supported retained, on-site recruiters, mostly behind the scenes.
  Major sourcing engagement included searches for: VideoEgg, Splunk, CodeGreen, Applied Identity, Pulse Mobile, Xoopit, Zynga, Bunchball, RedBubble, & Tapulous.

• Recruiting Coordinator & Sourcer

  Bebo

  (Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)

  2007 — July 2008 (1 year)

  Started helping behind the scenes in mid-2006, but was brought into the office and given an email address later in 2007.
  
  The focus of the sourcing was on back-end and front-end Software Engineers and Operations Engineers (Network Engineers & Linux Systems Administrators) for this extremely high-growth web service.

• Recruiting Coordinator & Sourcer

  Blurb

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  October 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  Sourced active and passive candidates, scheduled interviews, built a database for the companies server, edited or created and posted ads.
  
  Engaged for some combination of sourcing and filtering for CSR, Bus Ops Mgr, Accountant, Office Manager, Director of Finance, Web Engineer, Lead Web Engineer, Client Engineer, QA (white-box), BD Manager, Marketing Analytics Manager, Web Producer, Marcom/Web Designer, Graphic Designer, Copywriter

• Recruiting Coordinator & Sourcer

  Six Apart

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  November 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 8 months)

  Sourced active and passive candidates, scheduled interviews, built a database for the onsite recruiter and for the companies server, edited or created and posted ads.
  
  Continuous searches for *Nix System Administrators and Perl Developers; other searches included Network Engineer, MySQL DBA, Data Engineer, Spam Engineer, Ad Server Engineer, Mobile Client Engineer, QA Engineer, UI Engineer, Web/Interaction Designer, Web Producer (i.e. L1-L7), I.T. Manager, Manager FP & A, Product Manager, Marketing Analytics Manager, Sr. Sales Manager.

• Graduate Student Instructor

  Princeton University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  February 1997 — May 1998 (1 year 4 months)

  The Other Side of Rome (with Prof. McDonough), Advanced Intermediate Latin (with Prof. Feldherr), Advanced Intermediate Ancient Greek (with Prof. Wildberg), The History and Nature of the English Vocabulary (with Prof. Katz).

Christian Bloom’s Education

• Princeton University

  MA, PhD Candidate (ABD) , Classicial Philology , 1993 — 1998

  Activities and Societies:

  Umbrian, Avestan, Hittite, Old Persian, and alot of Vedic Sanskrit, besides all the Greek and Latin, with a little Coptic thrown in and just enough Demotic Egyptian to get through a short research assistant gig. Debasement Bar (93-95)

• University of California, Berkeley

  BA , Classical Languages , 1989 — 1993

  Lots of Latin, lots of Greek, lots of German (1 class short of a minor), a little astronomy and cosmology.

  Activities and Societies:

  Thelema Lodge (89-91).