Captain and FO positions were on the company website for a number of weeks. It may also have been on an agencies site but I couldn't be certain, I know we've used them in the past but I am not sure whether that was the case this time.
We had more people apply for the Captains role than that of the FO. Make of that what you will. (requirements for FO's were frozen ATPL, 200 hours and MCC)
I know there are many resourceful new pilots out there, this isn't aimed at them, but when I come on here there seems no end of lazy ones who would rather throw 20k at the problem rather than actually sitting down and developing a strategy. It's this culture of "chucking money at the problem" which I find quite remarkable.
This is just my opinion of course.