Full disclosure I haven't had to apply for a permanent job for a while as I'm currently retraining (not that I didn't enjoy pharmacy!)
Are you guys looking to work in hospital or community?
If in hospital, it can be difficult to find a job in a specific location, especially in big cities, just cause there's limited job openings at any one time, and in popular cities it can get pretty competitive. If you can /are willing to move, there's usually always a job opening somewhere, and dont be afraid to apply for jobs in small towns, you're still doing the same work and can still do the diploma and stuff.
And even now when I look for summer work, I've joined some locum agencies and they keep emailing me every so often seeing if I'm free to work for them. Often it's small towns or mostly dispensary work, but a job's a job!
Can't speak for community, but have you tried locum agencies if there's no permanent jobs? Or I know some people have gone into all of their local pharmacies personally and given them their business cards and got locum posts that way.