So I got laid off from my local publishing job in January. I almost immediately got an interview with a local ad agency/PR firm, but got turned down after the second interview (the position is still open on their website
).
I live in a major-ish city in the Midwest, but there's not a lot of interesting publishing stuff around here (I moved back after college and lucked into a cool, exciting job. Most of the stuff around here is technical publishing, which I worked in for a while and really hated).
I really want to get involved with book publishing, but that pretty much requires a move to SOMEWHERE (Chicago, Boston, NYC, pretty much). I'm submitting resumes, and I'm well qualified and honestly good at what I do, but I'm not getting any responses.
What can I do to make myself more attractive? I know it's going to be really hard to get hired somewhere I don't live, but I'm not willing to move without a job in hand, and I'm also not willing to falsify my address and say I live somewhere I don't.
Does anyone have any advice? Are recruiters/headhunters worth it in publishing? I looked at my college's networking, but there's not a lot in the areas I'm interested in, and I've never met any of the people who do work in those areas. Is it okay just to send them an email or something?
I'm really lost. And sad. Any help/advice/words of encouragement?
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