1) Flight instructor at an integrated school (non-UK)
2) FI Rating
3) Walked in in-person
4) No, right place at the right time
5) more or less, previous military experience teaching pilots and aircrew technical stuff, but I am sure the main reason why they hired me is because I'm a native English speaker
6) 300 more or less
7) FAA training followed by JAA conversion in different countries
Sorry, maybe not what you were looking for. I have a friend though who did modular training in Italy and got a Ryanair interview and Susi Air interview. I also know a UK FI who did modular and he got hired at Ryanair this year with around 800hrs.
Merry Christmas!