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Two other suggestions for you:
1) Carefully arrive at a list of 15-20 schools, say, based on the match with your research interests and then mail 2-3 faculty members per department with whose research you identify the most closely. See their responses and use that as an input variable in narrowing down the list of schools to however many you apply to. You would want to apply to a school where you get very enthusiastic responses back from the faculty members who are willing to set up time to speak with me (has actually happened to me once) and maybe stay away from a school where you get extremely lukewarm/ tepid responses.
2) As far as your current job is concerned, I am not sure if your present work can result in any publications or not but if with some effort, you can get a publication, that would be very useful. Other than that, you should certainly explore the possibility of taking up a RA-type position as asian has suggested.
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