Junior / Senior level Not enough experience

Ive been working on the networking part. My last 2 gigs I networked in to those, which worked great. Unfortunately this time around I haven’t had that kind of luck. I’ve had some great coffee meetings over the past few months, but they all have ended with, well my company isn’t hiring, at the moment. Atlanta, from what I have seen is really in a bubble right now, too many candidates not enough jobs and well those like me have either moved, given up or changed to a different design field.