Donkey,
By the time Qlink finally offered me an interview my IPC had lapsed for about 18 months. I had been flying regularly during this time. I made HR fully aware of this but they told me to come for an interview anyway.
So after booking flights and making a hotel reservation for 3 days I was told after my first interview that due to my lack of recent instrument flying I would not progress to the sim stage. I showed the email from HR to the Capt who was interviewing me and he said I shouldn't have come to interview with a lapsed IPC. I told the Capt I could have the IPC done in a few days which he replied "you can't do an IPC renewal in a few days".
The hiring dept at Qlink have some strange ideas.