Job searching: Am I doing this right?

I finished grad school in December and am looking for my first full-time job. Am I doing this right?

Background:

I grew up in a rural, small town. My parents weren't ambitious people, and they didn't teach me the apparent importance of networking.

After undergrad in the nearby college town, I moved across the country to a big city for AmeriCorps. I stayed there to earn an MBA in nonprofit management, and since January, I've been looking for development positions in the area.

I spent the first couple months sending out resumes and cover letters to postings on Indeed, GlassDoor, etc. However, after a couple months of no interviews, I went to my grad school's career adviser, who told me to ditch that strategy and to, instead, schedule lots of informational interviews and to only maybe apply to an online posting if it was particularly intriguing.

I've been doing that for over a month now and have held a decent number of info interviews after messaging alumni on LinkedIn and through other random connections, but none have led to job interviews thus far.

I trust my adviser, but, as someone inexperienced in job searching and networking, it's hard for me to gauge if I'm doing this right. FWIW, I also volunteer with a food access nonprofit and try to leverage that to build connections, and I keep an eye out for nonprofit events in the area as opportunities to mingle. But is job searching just grabbing coffee with lots of people and asking those people to connect me to more people for more coffee meetings? Or am I missing something?

If so, great, I'll just work harder and stay optimistic. But I'd just like a second opinion.

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