Getting a foot in the door is definitely hard. Place I work at isn't hiring at the moment. Have several suggestions. 1- Have you considered looking at freela

Getting a foot in the door is definitely hard. Place I work at isn't hiring at the moment. Have several suggestions. 1- Have you considered looking at freelance platforms like Upwork? There is a bit of a game that needs to be played to get the first few projects. - bid quickly (as soon as job posts come up) - underbid - keep trying. It'll probably help you hone your skills and have specific projects to talk about during interviews. I helped my wife step into this. Quite quickly, a few projects led to a nice part-time role with a US startup via Upwork. A while later, tried applying full time locally and the projects and work was easy to talk about during the interview. 2 - Have you considered going to local/slightly distant meetups via https://www.meetup.com/ https://www.meetup.com/ or eventbrite? Networking in person makes it easier to push the CV through HR. And in some cases, there are HR folk attending the meetup to step in. I once attended DWPs Hackathon in Leeds (which turned out to be a recruitment event basically. so sign up to those perhaps?) 3 - I'd recommend having a LinkedIn profile. Saw some questions about how to put the homeless time gap in there. Don't have any suggestion. But I think having a profile would be better than not. If you had a LinkedIn profile, I can share that easily. Have lots of recruitment people connected in my profile. Connect here https://www.linkedin.com/in/zubairlk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/zubairlk/ And there are some other people I wanted to share your profile. Perhaps I could try sharing the CV. But definitely easier as LinkedIn is super easy to parse. The format is the same for everyone. One glance is enough. Add a little udacity/coursera online course icon and that is sufficient to push the profile through the door sometimes. CVs require more investment to parse.