Folk have started hiring again in small numbers (but not into airlines who I suspect will have further rounds of redundacy's coming up after the summer) but you will never see the advert's because they pick all the pilots up through personal recommendations or the pilot has networked thier way into the job.
There are several reason's
1. Bigotry, the whole of the training team went self improver or modular and just don't like intergrated full stop (there are a number like that)
2. Some require buckets full of self reliance which someone who has been through training with zero unsupervised PIC time and zero life experence won't have. The old farts you took the piss out of on your course might be in with a chance.
3. Old hardware, intergrated courses are set up to supply a product for newish hardware EFIS, autopilots that work properly not some old heap that the QRH is used nearly every week and you have to hand pole round a DME arc on steam instruments.
4. Only take 1000hr plus pilots, so its instructors,meat bombers, glider tuggies, photo pilots etc
5. They have the reputation of being cocky wee !!!!es.
The structured training line came from the Q400 fleet skipper at flybe and has been latched onto by the training industry as a reason for intergrated training because the BMI and BA reason is long dead. The fact that flybe do take on modular students seems to be missed out in the telling. All they are interested in is that you completed your CPL and IR at the same school.
When you see cadetships linked with certain schools be assured that there is something in it for both parties. It is a hard financial deal with benifits to both parties (and by parties I mean the airline and the school). The bonus to the student, there has to be some carrot, is the chance of a job.
And as I have said there are reasons why intergrated is the best option for a small minority of student pilots. But the marketing spin line about airlines prefer it because of structure is
. That very structure of being spoon fed with zero true unsupervised PIC time puts you out the picture for quite a few jobs. Its fact that those jobs until the last couple of years wouldn't have been looked at by a 170 hour zero to hero. Now there is abundance of hero's trying to get into markets (instructing,tugging,reccon,survey etc) that they would have never looked at in the past. But its only to get hours, the pay won't fund the debt repayments. Employers know this and stay clear because it means you will go ASAP or at some point you will cause huge problems with going bankrupt.
If you graduate and don't get some form of job within a year. Unfortuantely the chances are you have pissed every penny you have spent on training up the wall. You have a very expensive PPL and are allowed to fly in clouds until you run out of money keeping that current.