Horatio,
It is as bad as I mentioned earlier, to the point where QLink are asking J* to stagger the intake of crews recruited from QLink. Thereby preventing a mass exodus at any given moment which would potentially cripple QLink. Years back you needed thousands of hours to get a job with a regional, today they are taking on pilots with less than 1200 hours and the Q cadets have around 300 hours including maybe 100 multi. Baby sitting duties for captains? That's how the captains feel any how. QLink has had groundschools for 7 and only 1 turns up indicating that they have better options. Many guys have simultaneously been accepted by
VB and J* and so having the leisure of selecting and the pleasure of rejecting instead of being rejected! Having said all of this you still have to jump through the hoops at interview/sim check etc. Good luck!