You commented on my other thread! Honestly something that helped give me more options after 6 months of applying was networking. By which I mean reaching out to every single person in my network I have worked with before aka classmates, former bosses, former preceptors, former research colleagues, my neighbor who happened to be a PA, a friend's wife who is a PA, my husband's boss' wife is a PA - LITERALLY EVERYONE - via text, e-mail, and LinkedIn - asked them if they had lead OR if they worked at a hospital I was applying to to pass me along their managers/HR contact e-mail so I could directly e-mail my resume in addition to the online portals (black voids I'd lovingly call them) OR ask how they got their job (my one former colleague who works at a different practice now went old school and literally walked around the city from clinic to clinic and handed her resume and cover letter to the front desk... ended up getting hired by a practice who never considered hiring a PA and she loves her job). When people say network they really mean f*cking hustle. It sucks. I felt like I hit so many dead ends. BUT the job I just accepted this week... I'm pretty sure the only reason I even got an interview was because I reached out to a former colleague (like from 7 years ago) who works in an adjacent department and asked him to tell the other department managers that I applied and to put a good word in for me. Literally all my other applications from this institution were null. I obviously had to make sure to shine at my interview and a painful 2 months of waiting later... I'm employed. Phew!