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Chief Executive Jeff Immelt will give up control of General Electric Co. later this year.

Companies predict that the average raise in 2017 will be about 3 percent, which is similar to previous years' averages.

Whether they'd like to be behind the scenes at fashion week or in the corner office of the LVMH headquarters, a lot of people covet careers in beauty.

Eighty-six percent of Americans work at jobs that require them to sit at desks and stare at computers for most of the day.

Last October, Recruiter Today ran an article about why baby boomers won't be retiring as soon as everyone expected.

When big retail chains close stores, it can be a blow or a blessing for small businesses near the shuttered merchants.

Welcome to Top 10, Recruiter.com's weekly rundown of the best of the best in recruiting!

Lately, I've been reading a lot of stories about why women need to be more assertive and powerful in the workplace.

Article by Jeff VrabelOne of Jodi R.R. Smith's favorite quotes comes from a handbook that was published in 1911 and bears the actual title of Polite Matters for Little Men and Women: "That the manners of children in this present day and age are not what they should be or even what they were a generation ago, is an indisputable fact."Those words were of course written before people brought their cellphones to weddings and broke up with each other via text message, but Smith says the general idea – that societal norms are routinely shattered by the young and clueless – remains patently wrong, wrong, wrong."Being rude or socially oblivious isn't restricted to millennials," she says.

Firing someone is never easy.

Businesses large and small have a new reason to encourage traffic to their Facebook pages: The social media network recently rolled out a new job board feature in the U.S. and Canada.With this new feature, candidates can search through a list of potential employers on Facebook and apply directly through the site.

Uber Chief Business Officer Emil Michael is leaving the ride-hailing company just a day before the scheduled release of a report that is expected to recommend notable changes to Uber's culture and management.

Stellar recruiting strategies are key to company growth, but sometimes, recruiting solutions do not align with recruiting budgets.According to LinkedIn's Global Recruiting Trends 2017 report, 35 percent of businesses cite "limited budget" as one of the biggest talent acquisition challenges they face. To make budgetary matters worse, a November 2016 CareerBuilder survey found the average cost of a bad hire to be nearly $17,000.The CareerBuilder survey also found that 75 percent of employers admit to having hired the wrong person for a position in the past.

Sending a handwritten thank-you note after a job interview is the No.

Figuring out how to get back into the workforce after extended time off can be frustrating.

There was a time when you could put a padlock on the dumpster to keep identity thieves at bay, but in the age of the internet, stealing personally identifiable information (PII) or money is easier than ever before.