I think a good place to start inquiries for IT positions would be with the major banks and telecom companies. Try Citibank or Tricom or even Codetel. I'm sure if you dwell on it a little you can come up with even more prospects.
I don't know how good your networking skills are, but key in on the type of companies that might need someone in that realm. That means programming routers, competence with NT, WIN2000, 5.5 Mail exchange, Win2000 exchange, ..reloading Server software, install network versions of Symantic Corp. Anti-virus that update continually off the net. I think you would starve as a PC repair person.. Server support would bring in bigger bucks.
Therefore, visit the institutions with a big Server and PC base. If you have no clue, then go down to the corner of Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln Ave and start noting all the tall buildings. Better still, have your resume done in Spanish (by a professional) as well as English. Since most of MicroSoft support would tend to lend itself to someone fluent in English, that might be a good bridge.
All this means that should have better than average skills to offer to a potential employer. I.E.,
- Can you program IP addresses in Cisco Routers?
- Can you reload a crashed NT server?
- Are you good at downloading drivers off the Internet?
- Can you partition and map disk drives?
- Do you have some TCPIP skills?
Don't limit yourself just to WIN servers. Perhaps you have VMS or UNIX skills as well that may be in demand. Can you perform ODBC extracts from Sybase tables using Excel or Microsoft Query to select data source, fields, make queries and sorts?
If you have some of those skills - flaunt them. Apply logic and that may get your foot in the door somewhere. I would have to imagine that if a company can afford the rent on the 12th floor of a 25 story skyscraper, then chances are they might be able to afford your services in one of those skills.
Should you still have no luck getting a full-time job offer, then have a business card printed up, touting your skills.
Some of my most successful friends do not work for any particular company. They are "hired guns" to fix servers, to set-up networks, to program routers, etc. While they do not have any single company paying them $90,000 a year, they are making more than that by having as many as 30 clients that call on a "as needed basis". Sometimes they respond to 1 or 2 hour jobs. Sometimes, they spend a whole day at companies, or several days installing many PCs or setting up an entire network. You might have parallel success in the DR being a "hired gun", if you have enough funds to get you through the first 6 months while you build a client base.
-Kingofdice (IT Mgr. in States)