I don't want to come across negatively, but I'd like to reccommend that if your end goal is directing, then I would focus your sights on that. There is a grace period out of college, when a lot of folks can afford to work for next to nothing just for the experience. Ten years from now, that won't be the case. You'll have bills and expenses that will have crept up on you without you realizing it, which will limit you from taking those 'experience' jobs that don't pay.
Why I'm saying that is now would be an excellent time for you to try to find directing internships, with your end goal being getting an AD job. If you can afford to do work for little pay for the experience, then I'd recommend getting the experience in your main interest. Not that knowing how to stage manage is not helpful for a director, but if you SM too long, you could get branded as a SM.
To try to answer your question, for whichever path you'd like to take, making a plan [for me] started by looking at job postings. Every job posting. What kind of experience did they ask for at the higher paying jobs? What type of lower paying jobs could I work to get that experience? Which companies take folks fresh out of college? From there, where can I go where they just want some experience? Five years from now, when I have five year's experience, what are those jobs [that require that much experience] like?
I also tracked things from year to year. Who's always hiring fresh each year? Why is that? Is it a bad place to work, or do they hire lots of new folks who use it as a jumping point to better things? Look around at the types of theatres near you. Do you have a preference of a location to work? A particular city? Or would the job be more important than the city that its in?
Goals are helpful in setting your sights, but also be flexible for other possibilities that come along. My goal out of college was to tour internationally. I spent 8 years touring the states to get the experience to try for international, but never got that far. A stationary job came up that was tempting enough to try for, and so while I have not achieved my goal from out of college, I have improved myself as a person from all the travel that I've done, got lots of valuable experience, and am thinking that being stationary is a new adventure to try. I really like my new job, the pay is good and I have full benefits and a retirement plan.
Hopefully I have been of some help, for whichever path you chose to take. My first job out of college was a season at a half-equity house where I was an ASM. I was an apprentice and made around $200 a week. From there I was able to step out and get 'real' jobs, because I had a year at a professional theatre on my resume.
-Centaura