CNN: Kelly Kinney spends her days standing on Los Angeles street corners or in coffee bars hoping to get noticed.

Look at her from the front and you can read the 29-year-old marketing professional's resume. Check her out from behind and you can read the cover letter. Kinney needs a job.

"Publicity is something I have always been good at and basically, the name of the game is how you can get noticed, how you can distinguish yourself from everybody else," she said.

Kinney moved to Valencia, California, about a year ago as her company in Dayton, Ohio, downsized. She worked remotely for her old employer until October, and has been looking for a full-time position for more than a year now, but says she can't even get in the door for an interview.

Since mid-September, she's been applying to an average of 40 jobs a day, but, she said, "it just sort of feels like my resume is going into a giant stack with everybody else's."

The unemployment rate in the Los Angeles area was at 8.2 percent for October, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A check of employment Web sites found about 10,000 listings for marketing jobs in Southern California.

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