Gather all your work and form a virtual portfolio and duplicate it on paper. The best, in your opinion, the materials placed at the beginning and at the end of compilation. This is to ensure that employers interested your first sketch looked to the end, where it would wait at least a pleasant surprise. Although it is possible that he may have an opinion about the quality of design materials.
Prepare a resume in which state your professional skills necessary for the job. If you do not have serious experience, focusing on your personal qualities such as diligence, responsibility, self-discipline. Creativity, erudition, broad-minded, too, will come in handy. The designer may not have special education, but to understand anything other than core activities, is simply obliged. Otherwise, it works very soon will acquire stamps.
If you are not yet a serious portfolio, please refer to the exchange of freelancing and look first for new orders, and then - and more serious tasks. At the initial stage, you can work for free or for fees and you are interested organizations (depending on what area you specialize in design).
The work of a novice is best to look through online forums, or go directly to the administrators you are interested in resources. Classifieds in electronic and paper media of course you can also place, but if you have no experience, get in the chosen direction you will be more difficult. However, information on employment, published on behalf of the employer, you should look. It is likely that some organizations just need a novice designer, which can be around the train from scratch.