Dartagnan is right, be very careful because the money you will spend for a type rating or anything else might lead to stop your career if you don't find a pilot job straight after your investment. I will give you my story as an exemple:
After my CPL/IR and several months of search for a empty right seat, I finally joined an airline and worked for a year as flight dispatcher, and a year later as Cabin crew. I quickly realised there were no possibility to shorcut and jump from the cabin to the flight deck, so I decided to pay for my own A320 type rating (no line training included). That has been the worst decision in my career: all airlines (even in third world countries) asked hours on type, not even 100 hrs, but at least 300 - 500 hrs on type. They really didn't care about my type rating as they receive tons of applications from pilots in the same situation. Their first question has always been ''how many hours on type do you have? We need 500 hrs on type''. Other said'' we are in partnership with this TRTO which provide our F/Os'' etc..
Several months later and 450 hrs TT, I went to Turkey and talked to the chiefs who offered me a nice right seat position to fly 500 hrs on the A320 for 25000 euros. Desperate, I was ready to make a loan and join, but they already had 12 rich guys in line training at that time, and I wouldn't have been able to start before next season 2007.
I have no more money to keep current my TR, I am out of the game
Finally, I recently found a job on a king Air, a friend of a friend...it's been hard to justify to the CP why I do have the A320 rating, and what were my career objectives. He gave me a chance as I have been referred, but paying for rating (or flying) is definitely not appreciated in the industry.
I am not the only one, my A320 partner and 2 other friends are now instructing on C152...