As unhelpful as it might sound, the answer to both of your questions would be to spend a lot of time reading these forums and look at other peoples experiences.
There are a lot of people who acquire CPL/IR's every year and very few "jobs" for those that do. Then there is the question of what do you mean by "jobs?" Airline vacancies for pilots tend to be either at the experienced level or at the cadet level. The former tends to be in the 2000 hour plus range with significant previous experience (catch 22?) or in the case of the latter, usually via specific cadet training programmes. Both of these routes are very heavily subscribed.
In the middle, you have many thousands of would be hopefuls looking for the limited spectrum of (often) stepping stone jobs that are themselves both rare and keenly fought over.
Nobody can really answer your two questions for you other than to say you presumably look for a job and should plan for a long period of drought, with a realistic set of "what if" scenarios. Again, spend a lot of time researching, and look in some depth through these forums where your questions have been answered by those who have been in this position time and time again.
Good luck.