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If 100 out of 100 industry readers of your script think it approximates professional standards, there's probably 0% chance it gets made. If just 3 out of 100 industry readers think it's the best thing they've read all year, there's a rather decent chance it gets made.
My point: I think lots of folks try to break in by approximating a professional quality script. But competent journeymen screenwriters aren't in hot demand. Original voices and stories are. Because they're so much rarer.
Competent journeymen screenwriters get hired because they're reliable. New writers get hired for one of two reasons: 1) they're unique, 2) they're cheap. As a beginner or outsider, you can't out-competency, out-reliable the pros. So don't try.
To get made, or to get you hired, your script will have to jump out so much that someone in expensive clothing will be willing to put their reputation &/or job on the line to advocate on your behalf. For that to happen, your script can't just be good. It has to be special.
So I wouldn't aim at having your breaking-in script seem professional. Instead, I'd aim at writing the script only you could write. Be unique both in terms of content & voice. Because the industry is starving for new voices, not for more solidly competent pros.
And if your original script does get you industry meetings, don't shy away from taking advantage of how your personal biography or experiences might intersect with what makes your script unique. Package your biography with your script. (Without faking it.)
I broke in with a rural blue collar macho TV pilot. You can bet my reps leaned into my own authentically blue collar, rural background when discussing me with industry people. And I certainly didn't do anything to contradict that true story during my meetings.
Industry folks who liked my script seemed to also like that my biography had a lot of overlap with the world of the script. I think it made me seem a bit different, perhaps even made the script feel a bit more authentic. Once I was in these rooms, my outsider status was an asset.
As a writer, if you have talent and a point of view, I think you can build a career around that combo, especially if you can connect your point of view with something genuine in your personal biography.
So I don't think people breaking in should just aim at being a pro. I think they should aim at being a unicorn. You can learn chops later on. But you can't learn authenticity or individuality. Or biography. Lean into that side of yourself -- your difference -- as much as you can.
If your script sucks, none of this will help, of course. But if your script is strong, its difference & authenticity could elevate it from being just another good script to being the best thing someone in expensive clothing has read all year. And that could lead to work.
All of this offered as the morning coffee thoughts of a fully random and anonymous (but working!) screenwriter who is on location & is trying to distract himself from missing his family too much.
