No problem, the medical is important if you want to go commercial and if you can't pass that there are more affordable more fun ways to enter aviation as a hobby.
The CV thing is where most youngster fall over looking for their first job. They just don't have anything to put on it apart from exactly the same as the other 100's of unemployed pilots in the same boat.
Go get some gliding in during the summer though. With any luck once you have your PPL you will then be able to fly the glider tug which will be a cheap way of building hours.
They tend not to allow none glider pilots to fly them if they can help it because you need a gliders eye to see where the lift is and drop them off in the right place.