Flintstone
It's probably because the general standard of students coming out of CTC and OAA are of sufficient high quality to be able to move directly into the right seat of a Jet.
Expectations aside its the ability of a cadet that gets him or her into that seat.
The selection criteria and tests weed out those who are not ready, or who are ill prepared.
Why should a recent fATPL have to go through the progression from Air Taxi, Regional carrier to Airline.
Today there is no reason to take that route as Jet jobs are available to those who are prepared to pay (natural selection) while those who are unable post childish remarks based upon hearsay on forums like this.
Unfortunately the times are hard and there will be no free type ratings for many years to come. (if ever there was such a thing in the last 10 years)
To those who perpetually knock Ryanair, please give it a rest as you are now showing signs of much repetition and sour grapes.
Its a free society so allow people to make their own informed choices.
If and when cadets pass the RYR training course and line training they are offered positions throughout the network, so those who say jobs are not available at the end of training do not know what they are writing about.
Recruitment is based upon company needs and is not profit driven as some will have you believe.
Its a new cold hard world out there since late 2008, and jobs of any kind are hard to come by for low experienced pilots, whom I sincerly wish good fortune in their search.
Remember that principles do not pay bills.