Website, DB, & Software Developers

Do you have any advice generally on how to break in to tech jobs with the state? I've watched that site, but all the openings seem to be for higher "levels", a general problem with tech jobs. I have a degree and decent skills, but stayed with the human services work I was doing in college after I graduated, so I don't have much documented experience in the field. Thoughts?

Thanks for your response, that's amazing. The power of databases is massively under appreciated in my humble opinion. Most web apps use something like MySQL but use none of its power, its just dumb data storage - the processing done in the server side code. They don't understand the power of complex queries, joins, triggers and all that one can do with them.

Peace!