apologies for the lack of clarity
a "career job" is one where you are employed on the books. I suspect most people would be most interested in these sort of jobs
my meaning of "contract jobs" is any job other than that.
Also, in order to get a "contract job" you almost always must be current and rated which means you came from a "career job" that either didn't work out...usually due to a furlough, shut down, or downgrade, or because you want more pay and opportunity for better equipment.
This may be situation in some cases, however id warrant a guess the majority of the people interested in these recruitment figures are currently working on building experience, possibly working contracts and building experience hoping to secure a job on the books with a decent operator, and not having left a decent on the books job to commence working as a contract pilot (although there are some advantages for some people to do this)
Althought the industry has changed and money rules there are still good operators out there who the majority want to work for