DiceTV Update: More Tech Professionals May Consider Changing Jobs

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