Good luck with the search! The more serious Graphic Design industry is rough down here in Atlanta.

However, keep and eye out on craigslist and be careful when it comes to answering job postings. A lot of artist friends of mine, including myself, have had a rough time finding real and honest posters on that site (Atlanta based craigslist, anyways). There's tons of people who want $25/hr+, top notch, professional work for little to NOTHING. They talk very big about "gaining experience" with $8/hr jobs for doing compositing, print design, full flash webdesign, etc., which is just absolute bull. Also, there's a TON of people who ask for very, VERY specific samples of your work, and end up using it for their own benefit (college students for school work AND small companies or freelancing artists to use for profit). I've never had so much trouble when using the NYC craiglist job postings as the Atlanta ones. Just be careful, and don't allow yourself to do so much for so little... or for nothing at all!

Again, best of luck!