I just reached 7 months unemployed after being laid off at my previous IT Job, do I start pivoting?
I recently reached 7 months unemployed after being laid off at my previous job due to the company that I worked for a year shut down due to contractual conflicts with my state and a larger IT company. The job paid me $18/hr and I was essentially working as a Field Service Technician for the state government traveling to sites in my region and doing data transfers and troubleshooting issues through ticketing systems and other helpdesk tasks.
Since then I've been attempting to find positions in my state within the public sector and the private sector with little to no success, I've applied to roughly 300 jobs matching my experience with about 7 interviews and I have not been able to land an offer, and I cannot find any MSPs in my area (Richmond, Virginia) that are looking for techs.
I've been trying to keep consistent and not giving up but it is getting incredibly draining to the point where I may need to look further out but I cannot afford to relocate or I may have to take a basic retail job and just skill certs in order to get responses from employers. I really don't know what to do. I would like to get any advice on how to handle this.
Link to my resume: https://imgur.com/a/9m48XSd