For the past month or so, I’ve been passively looking at online job posts and updating my resume on monster (which has only seemed to garner more spam). But, it’s becoming very clear that things are not going to be getting better not only for me within my company – but for my company as a whole.

I don’t know a lot about management as of yet. Nor will I pretend to know all of the ‘behind-the-scenes’ decisions that the executives in my company are making. But being involved on the ground-level you definitely hear things.

A small sample of some of the warning signs:

• Bills don’t seem to be getting paid
• For a while now, vendors and clients have called asking why such-and-such bill, person or company hasn’t received payment yet. Sometimes these calls come even after the company has been told (in some form of company meeting) that ‘things are going really well financially’. – maybe ’cause we have all that extra money we’re not paying people with, huh?
• Massive Turnover
• Since December of 2006, 16 people have left. If it were a big company, that number may not be significant. But in my company, 16 people equaled 33% – yes 1/3rd of the employees.
• Have we added people? Yes, but only in a defensive way – and definitely not enough to replace whom we’ve lost.
• Going after new business that’s WAY out of our league
• As mentioned previously, I work at a small company. Employees are leaving left and right, management has basically said they don’t care. And rather than try to attack the problems in manageable chunks, they’re trying to hit home runs by going pitching to massive multi-million dollar companies. Honestly, even if we somehow were able to fool them into thinking that we had the bandwidth to handle their budget/workload – they would soon realize that we did not and would take their business elsewhere. This would leave us in the whole – since you can’t bill people for pitching for their business. A waste of time, resources and money all for the chance of a quick, large, payout.

I could go on, but there’s really no use. I have to leave.

So, this week and weekend, I’m focusing on updating my resume. Currently, I don’t think it speaks well to the type of job and responsibilities I’d be applying for. So I need to update it, add some more accomplishments and remove a lot of the college items.

I’ve already identified a few contacts to pass along my resume to – now I just have to create it.

I’ll keep you posted…