Well said Devil 49.
It can be boiled down into basic components:
If you believe yourself to be technically qualified for certain positions then the most productive way forward is to get in your car and go see them
Time consuming and expensive but you really will have to stand out amongst the other couple of dozen applicants.
If you want ANY job just to amass hours then basic instructing / cattle mustering / ferrying a/c / cleaning the hangar - gets the hours accumulating or in the case of hangar cleaning - gets you noticed in the company!
There is another way - not for the faint hearted but does work occasionally. Mortgage your house, get an Instrument ticket, show the industry you are deadly serious about this piloting malarky and then advertise your wares to the Corporate / offshore / hems fraternity.
Big effort - big rewards. Little effort - little or nothing in return.
I knew a paramedic who went from zero to N Sea Captain in just under ten years. Mind you it cost him his house to do it!
He's very glad he took the gamble.
Good luck
