Modular route
What sort of "job" are you looking for, uniandpilot?
If you mean regular airlines, then it very much WILL affect your prospects if you select to do your flying training with different providers and your hours-building off your own bat.
Airlines can afford to be choosy. What their bean-counters say they can't afford are the 'training risks' - the loose cannons (in their view) for whom they can't get a clear training report from one ATO covering all of their flying experience. Those who have simply burnt holes in the sky building bad habits as well as their hours, instead of having a structured programme of meaningful experience designed for them by the one ATO that has taken them from zero to Frozen ATPL. That's why a majority of airlines prefer Integrated training.
I've known people who have got in to airlines, despite training here and there and sometimes over some years. But for example, one had previously been an experienced First Officer on large ocean-going ships; another was an ex-Army Major. Another had been running a successful business whilst self-funding his training. In other words, people who have impressed their interviewers that they would fit in and cope easily with the disciplines of the airline. They had something extra to bring to the party - their experience, the strength of their personalities. They are the exceptions. You'd have to prove yourself above other safer bets, to be one of these.
For the average airline job candidate, the airlines want "catchy youngsy, teachy easy" with someone who has been moulded in one form, if possible by a Training Partner to the airline. Their training management and instruction is known and trusted, the airline may even have had a hand in the training manuals and observation of and feedback on the instruction being given. With the confidence in the partner comes less preference for Integrated against Modular.
Then again, if you are more confident in treading a different path - charter, cargo - how and where you've trained may be of much less importance than gaining the contacts to get in to these more closed worlds.
The best bet then, all things considered, is to stick with one school.
Last edited by easydebt; 28th Jun 2013 at 22:59.