Hopefully this is an indication that the situation is begining to improve for newly qualified pilots.
I don't wish to dispute the post but i'm supprised with the comment about forking out for the initial type rating.
I have been under the impression in the past that the situation described infered that the airline paid for the type rating initialy, and the person in question paid the airline back over a period of time out of their salary.
Hopefully this still is the case, otherwise we are getting into territory where the applicant needs enough spare cash after initial trainning to not only pay for submission of CV's, interviews and sim rides but to cover the cost of a type rating, just to be able to apply for a job.
That would mean that many people would need in the region of 60-70k instead of the 40-50k already needed to go from zero to RHS.
Anyone care to correct me?