Speak with friends who work at the firms you are interested in to try to get the skinny on the corporate culture. With any luck they may volunteer to become your inside salesman, talking up your strength to those in a position to hire new employees.

And roll with rest in rhymes of ribaudry

I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.

`Look now on me, Kallikrates!' and with a sudden motion she shook her gauzy covering from her, and stood forth in her low kirtle and her snaky zone, in her glorious radiant beauty and her imperial grace, rising from her wrappings, as it were, like Venus from the wave, or Galatea from her marble, or a beatified spirit from the tomb.