Started modular training in 2007, spent all of my hours building flying around Europe visiting different airlines and trying to meet the recruiters. Out of the 19 different airlines I visited I got to meet 3 recruiters and ended up with two job offers. Networking, networking, networking. That's my only advice.
I started my type rating on a 10 tonne turboprop a couple of days after I finished my CPL/IR back in 2008. Got laid off two years ago, flew for another company for a while overseas and am now about to start on a CRJ-700 in the homeland of my wife.
Get to know people, knock on doors and always expect the angels to p!ss in your beer, those are the main lessons I've learnt. Nothing ever goes quite the way you expect it to and you always need to have backups and alternative plans. I wouldn't do anything else in the world though and I still love going to work every day.