Deutsch Welle reports that German unemployment rate rose to 8.5% in February, up 0.2% from a month earlier; the number of unemployed workers rose by 63,000 in February, topping 3.5 million. A hard winter, that curbed construction activity in Europe's biggest economy, also played a role in the rise in unemployment. The new jobless numbers follow a series of announcements about plans for layoffs and production cuts by German companies.

Lominger, a Korn/Ferry company, has released the fifth edition of its popular FYI For Your Improvement book series designed to offer a set of easy-to-use development and coaching tools for executives looking to cultivate their leadership skills.

Denton Search Limited is a newly opened executive search business, specializing in the Search to Search and Recruitment to Recruitment sectors across all market sectors within executive recruitment firms. Based in London, the founder is Natalie Denton.

The Jacobson Group, professional and human capital services firm serving the insurance, healthcare and financial services industries, opens a branch office in Baltimore, MD.

The Human Capital Institute announced that Rideau Recognition Solutions, specializing in end-to-end corporate recognition solutions, is sponsoring a new HCI online education and community track focused on tools and techniques for encouraging employee creativity, innovation, development and loyalty.

SonicFeedback, from SonicRecruit allows organizations to create and assign feedback forms to any step of the recruiting process and gather key data to better manage their hiring.

The International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM) names Jeitosa Group International and Ultimate Software as its 2009 Partners Award recipients.

ExecuNet's Recruiter Confidence Index (RCI) decreased for the second consecutive month in February. According to the latest survey of 164 executive recruiters, 28% are confident or very confident the executive employment market will improve in the next 6 months, down from 36% last month. This decline in confidence was driven by a shift from "very confident and confident" to "somewhat confident," indicating that new assignments have slowed as companies put hiring plans on hold.

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