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Your MBA career center should be helping you-- have you contacted them? Also, join a few professional groups like the American Marketing Association or any niche associations (IE: Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Association), and attend their events. This is a great way to get involved with some volunteer projects to build your resume and get your name out there. Similarly, other TN MBA alum should have a group near you-- go to one of their mixers and get your name out there.

Go back to your MBA program-- they "made" you-- and their program is only as good as the placement of their graduates.

As another person mentioned, without the work experience to support your MBA, you will have a much harder time getting an MBA-level position at a company that does not traditionally lean on MBAs and certainly not for entry level work.

And as someone who has hired entry level marketing positions, I'm going to immediately reject an MBA going for an entry level position. MBA-level is management level. I won't pay them the salary they would expect for their level of education and I can get someone with a BA and who is really at that entry level to do the same job for a real entry level salary. It's a matter of budgeting on the employers' side.

One of my friends went straight through from undergrad to MBA and actually had to take the MBA off her resume-- she was only qualified from an experience perspective for entry level and the MBA was a deterrent.

Anyway, hindsight is 20/20-- this is why many MBA programs require a few years of real world experience. That being said, you have the option to go for an MBA-level internship, pursue non-MBA entry level work, or network like crazy within MBA circles.

Good luck.