Even a few years ago when they were growing much more they never had problems to find NTR FOs. Most of the people I know were never called for an assessment. They have a lot of applications.
Same for me, I applied many times, even with jet time, but the only way to get a shot for an interview was to go to one of their open days...
There is not, and never will be a shortage of non type rated unexperienced copilots, don’t believe what you read in the articles.
DECs are an whole different story.
They have hundreds of planes on order, and unless they sell them, the next years they will still hire a lot.