There are dozens of freshly minted CPLers that I met in my voyage up North and NE and none of them can get a job except the rare one that slips through the cracks and gets checked to line on a C210 or something. I think for every 1 that gets a first GA job, there is another 10-20 that miss out.
The issue is, everyone from down south has much the same CVs. 150-200 hours. Diamond time is very common around the traps these days- useless to NT employers. Foxbat I think is another common type, again, not overly helpful to those up north.
What is a competitive CV? Time on 172/182/206/210. That’s the rare CV that came across my desk 25 years ago in charter. That person got the job.