Roomey,
Enjoy your course, don't worry about getting a job until you get to the IR stage. The days of mates helping mates have not long gone and a personal recommendation is worth a thousand aptitude tests.
My advice is: These are difficult times, and you are going to have to work really hard to stand out from the crowd. Treat every exam as if it were a job interview, work hard and make sure you don't have to retake anything. You have to give yourself the best chance possible.
And when it comes to finding a job allot of it is luck, but airlines want a broad demographic of pilots and experience.
Good luck!
And that goes for anyone starting out.