1. After months of insufficient recognition (and two years without a raise), you accept an offer from another firm for a $2,000-a-year raise. When you tell your boss you are resigning, you are told how crucial you are to the business and are offered a raise of $2,500 per year. What do you do? Why? What problems might exist if you accept the buy-back? 2. Suppose you are a manager who just accepted the resignation of a crucial employee. After you send your request for a replacement to the human resource department, how could you help the recruiter do a more effective job? 3. If at your company the regular university recruiter became ill and you were assigned to recruit at six universities in two weeks, what information would you need before leaving on the trip? 4. In small businesses, managers usually handle their own recruiting. What methods would you use for the following situations? Why? (a) The regular janitor is going on vacation for three weeks. (b) Your office assistant who manages all appointments and handles all filing in your office has the flu and won't be in the office for two days. (c) Two more salespersons are needed: one for local customers and one to open a sales office in Victoria, British Columbia. (d) Your only chemist is retiring and must be replaced with a highly skilled individual. (e) Next week, your only computer programmerlanalyst plans to begin on a three-week leave to visit his sick mother in India. If his mother's health turns for the worse, he may be delayed by another week or two