If you aim high yet are realistic, you may be pleasantly surprised with the results. Personnel offices seldom hire. They primarily screen candidates for employers who are found in operating units of organizations. Knowing this, you should focus your job search efforts on those who do the actual hiring.
Employers often make bad hiring decisions.
Your job is to convince them that you will help them avoid making such a decision. Make sure you communicate several additional important qualities employers look for in candidates, especially likability, enthusiasm, honesty and intelligence. Jobs and careers tend to be fluid and changing. Knowing this, you should concentrate on acquiring and marketing skills, talents and abilities that can be transferred from one job to another. Millions of job vacancies are available every day because new jobs are created every day, and people resign, retire, get fired or pass away.