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If you are given an interview, send a hand-written (better if handmade) thank-you card. Address it to the person who interviewed you. If it was a team who interviewed you, go ahead and address the first person you spoke with. Drop it in the mail immediately after the interview so it arrives the very next day. It sets you apart from the other applicants in a very real way. I did this for a temporary position that I applied for at a biotech company, and the day I started work I noticed the card I had made was sitting out on display on the desk of the person I sent it to.
Here's something that ended with a positive response for our friend: Try phoning companies that didn't offer you a position, and ask them if there was anything they felt you could improve upon. Our friend who did this was swiftly informed that they would consider her for another position that better met her background. Had she not made the call to human resources, she wouldn't have been in the running.
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"Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq
"violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy
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