The man suspected of kidnapping Jayme Closs applied for a job at a liquor store the day before the teenager escaped, touting himself as an “honest and hardworking guy.”

Jake Thomas Patterson, 21, filled out an online application for a gig at Saratoga Liquors in Superior, Wisconsin, 40 miles from the remote cabin where he was keeping the 13-year-old girl, KARE 11 reported.

“I’m an honest and hardworking guy,” the accused killer wrote. “Not much work experience, but I show up to work and I’m a quick learner.”

Patterson embellished his work experience when applying to the liquor store, writing that he was at a Marine Corps Boot Camp in San Diego for five months starting in April 2017 — but he was actually discharged after just five weeks.

He also wrote he worked at Bohman Concrete in Hayward, Wisconsin, between April 2018 and November 2018 — but authorities said he was unemployed at the time of the October kidnapping.

Katie Bohman of Bohman Concrete said he’d filled out an application but was never hired.

It doesn’t appear that Patterson listed his short time at the Jennie-O turkey plant three years ago or his two days in October making blue cheese at the Saputo Cheese Factory in nearby Almena.

It was during the cheese job that he spotted Jayme getting on her school bus and quit to allegedly concoct his evil plot to abduct her at any cost.

The sicko allegedly murdered her parents, James and Denise Closs, at their Barron home Oct. 15 and snatched Jayme.

He’s accused of keeping her stashed away under his bed for 88 days until she bravely fled Jan. 10, when he told her he’d be away from the home for five to six hours.