I feel that this may present overly negative outlook. Sure, you will likely take a junior position but the I think the variance between junior and senior within

I feel that this may present overly negative outlook. Sure, you will likely take a junior position but the I think the variance between junior and senior within firms will be less than the variance between firms. That is, if you think offers are low this may depend a lot more on the location/size/type of firms making offers than on the position they feel you qualify for. It may be worthwhile to consider different sorts of companies: smaller companies may not be able to face the cost of getting you into the position where they feel are profitable and so may charge you a lower salary top cover for it. Larger companies may feel they can more easily cover the cost of training and have you profitable sooner and so they may be better able to look for raw potential, which hopefully you can show. Some larger companies may try to exploit you for cheap/inexperienced/naive labour. Possibly there is an advantage to being able mix in your mecheng knowledge, possibly not. The current pandemic is a large confounding factor in any difficulties in your job search. Apart from many companies struggling, others may not have set up systems for hiring while they are wfh, and there is surely more supply of labour than demand compared to usual because of this. I don’t really know if this advice is any help. I don’t think I’m particularly representative (though I wonder if anyone is). I would take everything here with caution if I were you (this sentence of advice is something which I more strongly feel is good)