Oh how times have changed. Ten years ago a pilot walking into some companies looking for a job was treated like rubbish by snotty little receptionists. Remember the phrase "The Chief Pilot doesn't see anyone without an apppointment." ? (Try getting one)
Now everyone from entry level bush jobs, to regionals, to jet operators are advertising. Jobs which pilots would once have considered going to retirement in are now seen as stepping stones to something better.
Companies are having to cancel leave and work people to the max to cover the shortfall. Recruitment has become far less selective, from the days of "endorsed and 500hrs on type" the net has had to be broadened to include people who will require quite a bit of training. Fewer people will end up having to accept below the award, and those that do won't stay more than a few months before jumping ship once they have a few hundred hours.
How many youngsters these days can afford $100 000 training from 0 to airline job. Pilots in the past have been paid wages that checkout operators in coles wouldn't accept, F/Os on modern turbo props earnt less than forklift drivers.
Even airlines will find it harder to find their model applicant and will have to accept people who can do the job but are older, have a strange temprement, are over weight, don't present as well as they could etc. Particularly if they are looking at people to pay for their endorsements at their own risk. Soon they will have to offer bonds to those they really want to employ rather than have them come type rated.
Interesting times and long overdue, make the most of them.