Listen guys, if anything you need to be patient. Especially if you intend to work here! Things can occur in an instant or can alternatively appear more drawn out. It isn't only potential cadet hire where this occurs. This is the typical practice within any large airline. It isn't hurting Ryanair having you wait around, whether you have passed your recent assessment or not. They may and probably do have more pressing concerns. The training department (to whom you are dealing with) does after all have the job of co-ordinating the training and checking of 2300 EXISTING pilots within the company! There are quite a few things occurring here at the moment.
A new RST (recurrent simulator training) program is in the process of being constructed and trailed for each of the 2300 pilots to undertake from early November.
Command Upgrade (CU) slots will continue to take priority, so co-ordination of simulator and line training for new commands is and will remain the focus
A number of TRE, LTC and SFI positions have recently been advertised internally. These candidates need to be trained. This requires further sim scheduling.
We currently have the crew numbers required to operate the winter schedule (end of October to beginning of April). With this in mind and with the other requirements that the training department must focus on, future cadet hire can drop down the list of priorities. It is not to say that it will be ignored. It is also important to know that a number of TR courses are still occurring.
The crew numbers for summer 2011 are still being churned. Again the concern will be Captains (it always is). There will be a number of 'leavers' over the winter (Emirates, BA, etc) so more uncertainty. Yet that is probably good news for future intakes.
Above all, be prepared to sit it out. There is no time frame, rhyme nor reason. Frustrating; however you had better get used to that. Good luck