If you want to stay within the airport work atmosphere, which personally I really like, especially if it is a fixed base, then it seems like a sensible enough move. I have known several people who have started as dispatchers, handling agents and also cabin crew subsequently make it into the cockpit. Attitude and self achievement do count in interviews and of course you are always in the position where you can ask for a hands on reference from flight crew. But it might be slim pickings out there in aviation for quite a while.