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This type of thing happens often. People come and go, most of the time unexpectedly. I've had hiring managers leave shortly after I came on board.

Don't tie your future to any one individual. Yes, it would've been nice to have him as a mentor, but very few people have that luxury.

Be your own man. Make your own decisions.

If a long time employee leaves for the reason you stated, start looking for a new gig now. That company is headed nowhere.

That should still tell you that the company isn't heading in the right direction. Why hire someone then ignore them?

I hope to find out in the next couple weeks when i have the chance to speak with him.

This is the best advice one can give. I learned the hard way that your past performance means nothing to the new person and they might want to bring in their own people for you to train for a couple of months before you are forced to resign for "performance issues".

Also update that resume.

Just have your resume ready. Odd as it seems you are better off all ready to jump than hitting the panic button in December.

You have a 6 month head start on networking and getting that 1 year in with the compnay. If they crash and burn before then your resume says you were unlucky to take a job with a company that closed shop.

If I'm you I find out how long their P&G contract has left. (and other contracts if they have any). If its through July you are golden. See how many other customer projects are in the pipeline. That will tell you how healthy they truly are.

P&G has too many products to be careless with finding suppliers like the one you currently work. P&G has warts like every company but the SOB's know retail marketing and they don't often get caught with displays they are unable to deliver because back in Cincy there will be blood and that's a career killer for whoever hired the company you are working for currently.

I've already been letting some of my friends know, who work for bigger companies.

I met with the CEO, he briefly mentioned that i'm not going anywhere and they like what I bring to the table. But the problem I see is having a 25 year old boss. I'm not throwing his achievments down the drain, he's been through the good and tough times in the past 2 years. But that being said, id like to learn from someone that has 5-10 years experience.

We just got out of a 3-month probation period(which I wasn't aware of until after I joined.... ). We got out of it, and P&G said that we made a lot of progress and like what we are doing.

I will def. update my resume this weekend.

Thanks for the advice.

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