I responded to a job advert in Fridays Australian for which I didn't quite have the requirements and initially had no response, the following week the advert was repeated. The week after that I was invited for an interview. I was employed and spent the next seven years there gaining a jet endorsement and turbo prop command. When I moved on it was into the right seat of an airliner followed by a reasonably quick upgrade.
I now get paid the same money for coming into work on a day off as I did in a week working for the scum bag bush operator I was employed by when I responded to the advert.
To quote an American recruitment manager:
"I can give a little if the applicant is short on multi engine time, or doesn't have any heavy time but I will not give one inch to someone who does not have a good attitude."