Interesting that SASless should mention pilots offering to work for free...
It's a subject that has been aired on here before, but the latest edition of APOA (UK)'s magazine General Aviation carries a very professional-looking ad for a CPL(H) seeking "unpaid hours building / experience." While, on the one hand, I admire his get-up-and-go in paying to place the advert, I can't help but think that unpaid work is not the way forward, and that potential employers would be likely to react more favourably to the same ad, but without the "unpaid" rider.
What do you think?