Dear Artie,
the whole point of the discussion here is that a TR wouldn't help you further if you only have 230 hours and can't find a job.
The best way to increase your chances of getting hired is by building (multi-engine) time.
The guys who opened this thread have just graduated and are paying for a TR just like that, because they think that's an additonal advantage and because OAT is advertising for GECAT...
About Brussels Airlines, it is true that quite a few students with only 235 hours have been hired, but you don't wanna know how many are struggling to find a job.
This is how it works: they have 8 vacancies per month that need to be filled. They take the most experienced first, and fill the vancies with the less experienced.
If you have 800 hours you immediately get the job, if you have only 200, go stand in the row among the other 80 candidates.
There are too few people with over 500 hours, so B.air has to compensate by hiring from the very large 250 hours category students. So if a guy shows up with 500 hours TT, he'd be hired immediately.
The all point is that if you only got a bit over 200 hours, you will compete with a huge amount of similar students. If you got a TR on B737 or A320, B.air will not care less (they might find you stupid because of the money you wasted), because all ab-initio's start on the ARJ's.
That's quite similar to what is happening in the UK.
Hope that clears it up.