Graduated 2008. Got a few knock backs, kept my licence current and gained a few contacts which I kept in contact with. Usual story no jobs, missed the only one going at a LOCO, got a hold pool place on a TP which came to nothing. Kept in touch with my contacts without being intrusive and after a “with the people who are available we are not looking to recruit low hour pilots this year but keep in touch” a phone call a few weeks later asking me to come to a sim test in two days time. I was given the opportunity and thankfully I was able to prove myself and was offered the job the next morning. All in all it was about two years. Flight school careers/placing had nothing to do with it. It amazes me still but it was networking and being ready for when they suddenly needed some pilots like yesterday. One thing is certain though, you have to go and get it because nobody is going to search you out. Good luck and keep yourself ready to work.