My post 676 from last year
All the inexperienced non-type rated guys recruited for this year had been on a JOC. Although a JOC is a bit of a waste of money as everything in it is covered by a TR course, its possession, or not, by applicants was used to 'thin the field' from the hundreds of applications.
From the low houred guys the applications were in the thousands and probably are again. The holding of a JOC or not will just be one criteria among many used to reduce the number of applicants for an assessment day from thousands to less than a hundred.
All the best