DiceTV Update: More Tech Professionals May Consider Changing Jobs

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Why tech professionals are getting ready to move, fewer job seekers are starting their own companies, and good places to network in New York – with beer. (And here’s the link I promise in the video.)

Our main points:

• It seems tech
  professionals are becoming more confident about their prospects
• Harris Interactive found 38
  percent say the economy is getting stronger, up from 32 percent in the
  first quarter.
• That confidence seems to be
  turning into something like wanderlust, since notable chunks of IT workers
  say they’re “likely” to look for a new job in the next year.
• By “notable,” I
  mean 61 percent of those earning between $35,000 and $50,000 a year
• 27 percent of those making
  $50,000 – $75,000,
• and 36 percent of those
  making more than $75,000.
• You could argue all those
  salary cuts or suspended raises are coming home to roost.

• Fewer
  out-of-work job seekers are starting their own businesses.
• Challenger, Gray & Christmas says
  only 3.7 percent of unemployed workers are starting their own companies
  rather than look for a job.
• That’s down from 7.6 percent
  in the first half of 2009 and 9.6 percent in the second half.
• It’s not clear why this is
  happening.
• But here’s something
  interesting:
• Venture capital seems to be
  opening up again.
• Dow Jones VentureSource says
  VCs put money into everything from software to electric-vehicle
  infrastructure during the second quarter.
• In fact, technology and
  healthcare were the two most-favored sectors. They received $4.6 billion of
  the total $7.1 billion invested last quarter.

• If you’re in New York,
  Business Insider has a look at the bars where you’re most likely to meet
  tech leaders.
• Chelsea and the East Village
  seem like the most happening places.
• (If you want to check one of
  them out, send me an e-mail. I’ll buy.)

— Mark Feffer