I used Qatar as a ficticious example, this thread is designed to cover all airlines no matter where they are based. It is to find out how stringently HR departments adhere to whats written in the job specs.
One look at PPJN tells you that there aren't too many jobs anywhere, let alone Europe. At present there are too many mid houred pilots who are barred from cadet schemes and are in the twilight zone below airline hiring thresholds.
They may have mortgages and families to support and after spending the best part of the contents of Noel Edmonds boxes on training, it would be remiss not to follow up every avenue rather than to sit around and wait for things to upturn.