You mentioned being unable financially to move toward areas where the market is more ludcrative for your career, but I would highly recommend not limiting your search radius, especially for a "foot in the door" opportunity as those are the more difficult to achieve as you are untested.

I don't really use LinkedIn. I created an account so I could see who was interviewing me, often times the HR manager and the associates who will interview you are on there and you can see where they graduated from and potentially spark up a conversation about that or college sports or whatever. All about showing enthusiam and interest.

Perhaps you addressed this in other thread, but are you on Monster? I can think of no better resource for employment opportunities.

I would argue that the market isn't much better than 2008, so don't be discouraged, there's 12 million other guys thinking the same thing as you.

I do agree with you, Mr Khan, but not in the same extent.

Good businesses know that in order to have a SUCCESSFUL business, they need a healthy mix of extrovert (communicative, outgoing), AND introvert (analytical, attention to detail). Those who focus on only one or the other often ask themselves why their competitors seem to be gaining an upper hand.

That being said, today's society IS heavily biased towards the extrovert. Social networking was always there even before LinkedIn. Such sites only make it easier to automate such networking.

I'm an introvert myself. My workmates see me as shy and reclusive, but I'm pretty confident in the fact that my job is just as secure as theirs, due to the fact that my attention to detail is second to none, or that my deep thought has me solving minor problems arising much quicker than others can.

And I thought everyone else is being contacted by headhunters at least twice a week. Silly me.

I fail at networking considering VGC is the only "social" network site I belong to.  Also, I have very few real life friends.  The less people I know the better.

"Deserving" is completely based upon an opinion. The reality of capitalism is that Type-A personalities who are extroverts are more likely to succeed than introverts.

I view networking in the same light as cronyism.  It doesn't matter what you know or can do for most jobs.  It only matters who you know. 

Sometimes I wonder if you just satire the stereotypical socialist liberal democrat.

Others have pondered that, but most of this is just me venting, the way i deal with frustration, although i have wondered throughout this process if some sort of central planning wouldn't be better, where we're all just given jobs, whatever they may be.

I am serious in my suggestion that i deserve an opportunity to prove myself. Everyone deserves a chance, and a system that isn't giving you that because of social biases cannot be a working system.

How come you didn't take my idea in one of my previous post about cronyism? Networking is very similar to cronyism. Corrupt practices that one must deal with when living in a "free market" society.  Humans will always be corrupt.

Precisely: capitalism relying on shysters and the invention of value where none exists, it would make sense.