You live in the UK. You are probably not aiming for cleaning or entry-level minimum-training semi-proletarianised white-collar work or training. As far as I know, no meticulousness in adherence to normative social protocol will redeem you by other means. You are asking us for social commentary of a practical nature re. the UK and we are mostly yanks and kanoots.

What you are doing wrong: Not using internet brokerage to systematise you risks and minimise the time required to use part-time work to buy your freedom to live off the continued increase of your capital. Unless, that is, you value the people who pour most of the shit in your life now onto you as sources of structure around which to build your experience.

SAGE has been used.

mate it depends what kinda job you apply for. There was this job for engineering students and shitloads of people applied. I went there in my normal clean close and lots of students i know from uni where there too. All in suits. The thing is the job was working in production, maintaining mechanical components and writing status reports on a clipboard. Its a steel factory so everyone who works in it is dirty. Dress for the job you are going to have mate.
Secondly, i dont know how old are you but that might be an issue.
Last but not least, people who have to much "interview" training and give the standard answers to every questions without letting the interviewer know what kinda person they are, do NOT leave an impression.

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In my experience in the USA, it seems like the only way to get a job is through knowing the right person. When I got hired at my current job, someone I went to school with posted on facebook something like "who wants a job." Of course, a dozen people we're like "me!" but I was the only person to walk in and awkwardly apply. They hired me on the spot because that person had a good relationship with the boss and with me. But wtf do I know? I've only had two jobs ever. I do know that my lonely old dad is still unemployed and I've helped him file hundreds of online applications, and that I've seen plenty of people walk in to where I work for an application and I've never seen them since. Just seems like companies want to "hire within the family," so to speak. Also charisma probably helps. Especially in an IT field full of awkward fucks.