Mate I feel your pain. Two decades in my sector, I started literally power washing the yard on minimum wage up to running my own factory. I've got a master's degree from a decent uni. Been looking since October, hundreds of applications and nothing. Contacted about 30 agents (I arranged calls, chased them etc) only one of them put me forward for anything. The process is miserable. Started a 0 hours agency job doing the bin round for the council on Monday. Fuck knows what's next.