Company Profile

From basic resume searches to comprehensive Human Resources consulting, our goal is to provide strong processes, entrepreneurial vision and focused passion to your existing recruiting and HR efforts.

Our core recruiting team possesses many years of recruiting and sourcing experience. As individuals, each has a significant history of providing successful outcomes for hiring teams and each takes great pride in consistently providing remarkable customer service.

Our recruiting services include contingent searches, candidate pipeline building and large volume requisition management and placement. Whether you are looking to fill one position or one hundred positions, we have flexible services to meet your needs.

Perhaps your needs reach beyond the recruitment process? Our HR consulting team can provide expertise including hiring process review, interview training and development, leadership development and employment branding strategy.

Bottom line ... we are a group of entrepreneurial-minded recruiters and HR consultants eager to put our experience in the following industries to work for you!

  • Corporate Functions (HR, Finance, IT)
  • Music, Entertainment & Broadcast Media
  • Software
  • Healthcare
  • Aerospace & Defense
  • Mining & Manufacturing
  • Semiconductor
  • Marketing
  • Insurance
  • Investment & Mortgage
  • Fulfillment
  • Education

Mission Statement

At Octane Recruiting our mission is to provide strong, proven processes; act as entrepreneurs on behalf of our clients; and to maintain a focused passion - a drive to succeed that will keep us working hard for your business.


Management Team

Chris Fleek

Chris Fleek brings to Octane Recruiting over 12 years’ experience in Human Resources and Recruitment. He has a track record of success in full-cycle recruitment, Human Resource Generalist and Management roles and responsibilities, internship program management, college placement and group training/facilitation. His industry experience includes IT, Aerospace, Semiconductor, Education, Marketing, Fulfillment, Mining and Healthcare.

Prior to starting an HR Consulting business in 2004, Fleek served as Human Resources Manager for Archway Marketing Services, a leader in outsourced marketing and fulfillment services. Previously he worked in college placement as the Assistant Director of the North Dakota State University Career Center and as Campus Recruiter for Great Plains Software (now Microsoft) in Fargo, North Dakota. He began his professional career as a recruiter and Assistant to the Director of Admissions for his Alma Mater, Concordia College in Moorhead, MN.

At Concordia, Fleek earned Bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration and Communications. In addition he has done post-graduate work in the MBA program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln including studies in Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship.


Bob Lundblad

Bob Lundblad adds a unique combination of experience in sales, marketing and project management to Octane Recruiting that complement his core recruiting expertise. For the past five years he has managed contract recruiting teams working for Fortune 500 corporations in Aerospace & Defense, Semiconductor, Healthcare, Mining & Manufacturing and Entertainment industries. He has also been “hands-on” developing and implementing recruitment strategies to source and identify candidates for a broad range of business requirements.

Prior to his current role, Bob held senior positions in both corporate and agency environments, and for a number of years was responsible for selling corporate events and sponsorships along with managing event marketing programs for clients. He also held a senior account management position in Public Relations and was involved in launching and branding companies in the high-tech market. Bob began his career in broadcast television working for both NBC and CBS affiliates in the Midwest and then led an award-winning multimedia production department at Motorola.

Bob earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass Media Communications from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota.

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