Part 1: Asking for advice

I have a Civil Engineering bachelor's degree from a non ABET-accredited University from Brazil. I graduated in 2018 and moved to California right after that. I've been working as a restaurant server and also have 3 and a half years of experience managing a restaurant in the US.

During that time, I did nothing related to my field, up until a couple of months ago, when I decided to pursue a career here in the US. I studied and passed on my FE exam and I will soon receive my EIT certification in the state of California.

My goal is to find an entry-level position to start building experience. But I'm afraid my employability is not too good right now. My university is a "no-name" university compared to the ones of people I will be competing for positions and I have little to no experience, except for a 1 year internship assisting in the development and formatting of infrastructure projects in AutoCAD, as well as assisting in the creation of reports and budgets (in 2014).

My AutoCAD skills are rusty. And I have beginner to intermediate excel skills.

Context given, what can I do to improve my employability? Take some online classes on civil eng software (AutoCAD, Civil, etc)? Maybe attend some community college classes to get certificates in the US? Any other ideas or inputs?

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Part 2: My Fe prep

Also, since this is an FE Exam sub, if anyone is interested: for my studies, I would start each topic watching Mark Mattson's videos and trying to solve along with him using the reference handbook. Then practice using Islam's 800 questions, which has problems on a level that's very comparable to the actual FE exam. If I wanted to go further on some topics, I would use the Lindenberg Practice book, which is more detailed and difficult, so it's good for some of the main ones, like statics. PrepFE for a bulk of practice problems - really really good for comparable problems to the FE.

Also, and I can't stress this enough, learn to use your calculator, specially for the math section. Vector operations and solving equations using your calculator will save you time and help you solve lots of questions. There are some good videos on calculator tips on the PrepFE website.