World's better airlines.
The better airlines in this world do make arrangements with wannabies and give them some sort of formal agreement. (It may be provisional)
The huge confidence trick that resulted in lots of desperate self funded trainees in Australia has done enormous harm.
Let's hope we do not go back to that. I always wondered why pilots, who are supposedly intelligent individuals spent so much of their money and time on training without properly researching the furure job potential.