seriously, for 1 position, you have not 20, 30, 100 pilots, you have thousand of pilots who applied, this is why I say there is NO job
Well that's false isn't it? Even a ratio of 1000:1 is not zero. So you are still incorrect.
A bad trait to have as a pilot is not admitting when you might be wrong.
We took on a few pilots last year and didn't have anywhere near the numbers you are quoting applying. Like I say you need to know where to look, best way to do this is to network network network.
I got my first job by chatting to people and they effectively convinced the boss to take me on, albeit part time, but it worked. A few months later and a full time position came up with another operator, I applied and got in. Good T&C's (pension, health care, profit share, loss of licence and more), interesting routes, "performance A" aircraft etc.
I also appreciate that I've been very very lucky, but I like to think I made some of that luck myself.