Sorry if you're already doing this, but you should focus 100% of your effort on networking, don't bother sending out any applications ever. You need a referral

Sorry if you're already doing this, but you should focus 100% of your effort on networking, don't bother sending out any applications ever. You need a referral to put your name on the top of the list unless you went to MIT or something Friends, family, family friends, old professors, old professors' friends, online game clan members, etc