I'll add a little bit of hope to this awful situation.
I'm in the CTC Cadet Scheme and currently Type Rating for easy UK on the A319. My contract is not great (I am flexicrew) so I won't be going too deep into it unless you guys want to ask me directly through Private Messages.
What I would like to add however, is that we are doing a simultaneous TR with some people from easyJet swiss, among them are some VERY experienced pilots with over 4k jet time.
There is however one person on the EZY swiss roster who has a Permanent contract based in Basel with a total time of less than 300TT.
I also know someone starting with a european cargo operator also on a permanent contract, straight out of flight school.
Jobs may not be as plentiful or as shiny as before but I think they're starting to be handed out to some newbies out there in certain cases. I can only assume it will get better with time.