At a recent MPL meeting, recruiters for the major airlines commented that applicants may have all the qualifications - and even a type rating - but the harsh fact is that around 50% of fATPL holders are considered to be totally unemployable. Because they are simply NOT the type of people the airlines would ever wish to employ.
This view is shared by several folk high up in the CAA. Indeed one only has to sit at the door of the Belgrano on an exam day watching the candidates as they come in to know who the future unemployable are....
Just because someone is paying £70K + for flight training, that does not absolve them from doing as they are told. There are certain personal standards to which you must aspire if you wish to succeed - and that probably includes polishing your shoes and respecting your seniors.
Some applications for sponsorship are, frankly, quite unbelievable. It seems that someone urgently needs to tell ignorant modern digi-yoof that spelling, grammar and punctuation are still necessary in 2006. As is legible handwriting. Txt msg prose and spellcheckers are wholly insufficient!