Slide show: WRALTechWire Insider Joe Procopio took a camera to Thursday night’s “Tech Jobs Under the Big Top” to offer our readers an inside view of the event where companies make pitches to hire new workers.

It’s a circus … with food and fun … and companies looking to hire.

These events also bring out the kind of job seekers you wouldn’t normally find at a typically-dreadful job fair: Super bright, A-level talent, incredibly ambitious free-thinkers with new ideas, and people who already had jobs but were looking for something more.

Watch the slide show.

Having fun and finding a job: A combination hard to top.

Joe’s story is available only to WRALTechWire insiders.