Employees with high-tech skills confident about finding new jobs

When Dan Murray grew restless as a product manager at an Internet start-up company in Denver, he didn’t fret about finding a new position. He felt sure that an exciting opportunity awaited him. Without sending out one resume he threw caution to the wind and resigned.

“The high-tech business is strong in Colorado right now,” Murray says. “I felt good about leaving a job without having something lined up.”

Steeped in the online world as founder of the Rocky Mountain Internet Users Group, Murray sent out an e-mail to his group of…