Editor’s note: Joe Procopio, founder of ExitEvent and a columnist for WRALTechWire, offers his perspective on the Jobs Under the Big Top reverse jobs fair event and its tie-in this year with the Parsdoxos festival in Durham. ExitEvent and WRALTechWire are news partners.

DURHAM, N.C. - The most difficult thing about hosting a great event is that you have to up the ante and keep it fresh every time out. I’ve made no bones about Tech Jobs Under the Big Top being my favorite local startup event, and it continues to raise the bar in both value and straight-up fun.

And you have to have fun. Otherwise you might just as well go work at IBM.

I’ve attended every single Big Top since the first, when people still thought it was somewhat crazy to have companies pitch themselves to prospective job seekers in a circus-type atmosphere. And when I say “circus,” I mean jugglers-clowns-acrobats-hotdog-peanuts-everything-but-elephants circus, not stand-in-line-for-an-hour-to-have-some-HR-rep-shuffle-me-into-the-ERP-system circus.

An important distinction.

I’ll be there April 9th for the spring 2014 version of Big Top, repping Automated Insights as we pitch our open positions. We’ll be one of about a dozen startups who will take the stage to promote ourselves to the talent of the Triangle, hoping one or more of you will join our team.

The full post can be readt at ExitEvent.