Pasadena, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/28/2011 -- The Hillsborough school district in Florida is having a job fair to hire around 1,000 teachers.

The three-day job fair, called the Hillsborough Schools Expo, is being attended by hundreds of teachers from all over the country. The job fair, which runs from Tuesday to Thursday, is being held at the Doubletree Hotel in Tampa. Last year, the school district's job fair was successful in hiring about 85 percent of the new teachers.

The first day of the job fair, the teaching positions available were in 38 high-poverty schools in the district. The schools are now referred to as renaissance schools. 90 percent of the students in these schools qualify for free or reduced priced meals.
Although, usually seen as hard-to-fill positions, even these schools received a lot of interest from the candidates.

The job fair has attracted experienced as well as new teachers hoping to get a chance to start their teaching career. Most of the candidates will get to interview with principals of each of the schools. Very few candidates are hired on the spot, while for others; it is just the first step towards other rounds of interviews. The crowds of the hopeful teachers also proved false the notion that Florida will be losing teachers because of changes in its pay system.

The teachers who talked to the local media gathered to cover the event said that in this economy they were ready for any kind of job. EducationCrossing, a job aggregator site aimed at educators, has located over 10,000 teachers jobs across the country.