I suggest filing more applications all over GODs green earth...LOL No really keep on applying elsewhere...I usually will never follow up an application...as you said they will contact you if interested...unless I were to know a way inside the inner circle...but I usually just file and wait and file more...if I am interviewed that is where I get more proactive...like last week...I got interviewed on Friday week ago...I was told they would be interviewing all week...so I waited until Fri on my way home from out of town all week...I called and they responded that they have hired someone but want to keep my resume for future hiring....that is a laugh but ok...I am now out of the big picture....I probably should have sent a thank you note the very day I was interviewed but I failed to do that...which might be why I did not get hired...

long ago, i was told to keep calling and now recently you could call but dont pester them just move on. if they call you great, and if not oh well just keep moving. i hardly ever get to speak to the hiring manager i would keep getting the secretary all the time im like do you not have a hiring manager?!?

the whole hiring and applying is one big joke!

My son and daughter of ages 22 and soon to be 21 just landed excellant jobs..They dressed nice for the interview , spoke well and stayed positive during the intrview..My 19 yr old like to make his laugh a little...hes so-so about getting a job...He got the job but has had to move..
Yes actually go back in an show your face at least twice within a two week period...and call at least 4 times within a 3 week period and ask for the manager...If you do this which has worked well for both for both of my older kids ..I would bet you , you will be turning down jobs as they call you back because they know you are interested...
Persue and fill out apps with major companies...You look like a big guy kinda muscular why not put in as a merchandiser at some of the major companies and work your way up..getting a class A license...or be relief in sales and make close to 100,000 if not more sometimes...Yeh I look into Budweiser, Kraft, coke, Pepsi, and any major company that is not laying off right now...
Wishing you the best...Persue them until they no longer seem interested...drop off a resume , do anything to show your face at least 2 times..

Oh yeh I have always given my kids advice as to never accept an interview on a friday either...If they ask you, they have found that I am right about that too..Its kinda like working for the govt , no one really cares what you have to say on a friday its hurry up and get da hell out ..So when I have told my kids to tell the person asking for an interview Make them think your time is just as important and when they ask for friday you politly tell them Monday or even Tuesday is better...That way they know they too are getting someone of importance...

never heard of that friday thing...my last interview was friday and they hired someone else...will keep that in mind...