It all depends on the market for new pilots.
Back in about '87 if you were "warm & walking" and had a CPL you were in.
Back in '91 1,000,000 hours and two trips to the moon would not get you a job.
If a company has 500 c.v's to fill two posts for first jobs it needs to get the YTS in the office to turn a big pile of c.v's into a small pile. For this job you may need 5 gcse and 2 A or even a BSc. Hard but I think true.
If the company only has 25 C.V's for the jobs its the person behind the c.v. that counts.