Reminds me of myself many years ago.
You need currency to show any prospective employer you can fly. It's that simple.
The only way to do it is to find som e way of not paying for your hours...that means towing, instructing or other GA pondlife jobs.
I got my FATPL in 1991...couldn't have been a worse time and I like you never got a bite or reply to most of my CV and applications.
I renewed for the next four years, several hundred pounds to fly a Senneca III for an hour and a half, until I managed to save up enough for an FI rating. This got me 800hrs in a year and the interview I so desperately dreamed of.
By the way, I fixed fruit machines, cut trees down and got five stars at Mcdonalds on the way. Mcdonalds don't care a jot if you're a qualified pilot. They want regular reliable and normal looking humans. that's all.