It's a world based on connections and it seems reasonable that a company would want to promote from within its ranks, rather than hire new persons that need evaluation, reference checking and training.
Thank you both very much for taking an interest in my questions. I am carefully considering your advice and really appreciate it as it is the best I got so far, it really helped me understand what I'm dealing with here, I guess it's up to me to choose what I think is in my best interest and better suits my needs, and I feel better prepared to make a decision now.
I also approached my country's ministry of transportation together with a group of my ATPL colleagues, trying to find solutions, even suggesting some solutions to them in helping us support the further development of airlines by giving us a chance to work for those airlines(both national and other airlines) that will definitely need to hire pilots in the future, and considering that fewer and fewer people get the financing for an ATPL, basically anticipating the pilot crisis ICAO officials talked about at "the 3rd ICAO NGAP & TRAINAIR PLUS Regional Conference held at Pullman Bucharest – World Trade Center, Bucharest, ROMANIA, from 28 June to 30 June 2011". The response was positive, but we ended up with a bunch of promises so far, no jobs.
Not complaining about politics, just making a point that airlines would better prepare for pilot crisis in times like this when pilots would fly for free.