New member seeking advice

Hi everybody, i hope you all are doing well.
I graduated with a Electrical Engineering bachelors in 2012. It was just difficult to find
posistion in my field with the economical circumstances. Everybody
was just looking for "experienced" applicants. Is there advice that
anybody can give me in order to get my foot in the door of the
EE field? I gave up for a while on sending applications. But i want to
give it another push. I have gotten interviews but the competition
is intense and there are a lot of smart experienced people looking
for jobs too.
Im started messing around with micro controllers just so that i could
practice my c code and maybe that would be something i could
put in my resume as well. Im also thinking about getting a
FPGA starter kit. I was looking at a cyclone 3 starter kit online that
was used. (Trying to be productive with my time and show employers that Iam at least doing something related the the EE field. Well any advice is appreciated! thank you!

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