At the time I wasn't willing to go to a regional.
l think what hurt me most was the fact that I was a complete unknown. I had no internal references and hadn't worked for companies that they were familiar with
This was going back about 3 years ago so I believe the job market has improved slightly.
I checked a lot of the boxes, bachelors degree from a US school, around 9000 hours at the time, 5 type ratings on my FAA ATP and over 1000 hours as jet PIC.
In my home country I can get jobs easily buts it's often because of who I know. Usually there is some common ground, a quick scan of the resume and they'll ask "do you know so and so?"
I haven't been looking for a few years. The China gig is great and commuting from the US allows me to keep my green card. I'll look again eventually.