Well, from where we sit, things are encouraging, more from about a years' time, IMHO, because the average age of the industry appears to be very high, meaning potential retirements.
There is certainly a lack of experienced pilots at the moment - there is a thread on a rival forum about this very subject and many operators in Canada are hiring (2 pages of ads in a recent issue of a Canadian heli mag), South America is open (more interested in Spanish skills than a licence in some places), there is some recruitment on the N Sea, and I know of one company owner who is doing his own CPL(H) because he can't find pilots with a decent attitude (plenty of people with licences.....)
It's even better (or worse?!) for engineers.
Phil