Hmmm then how does one get onto the merry go round of ' must have hours to get a job. Cant get hours unless you have a job - to get a job you must have hours ...etc.. ?
This is also what's wrong with the helicopter industry. Companies should train rookie pilots instead of relying on somebody else doing this job for them (i.e. military or self-funded training). To drive my point home: if multi-engine experience is always a prerequisite for a multi-engine pilot job, then nobody would qualify .. it's a catch-22.
Now I'm not saying companies should pay for pedestrian-to-cpl training, but there are plenty of jobs which a 500hr pilot can do. And likewise, job requirements asking for 1000+hrs turbine time don't make sense to me. You might learn something for the first 50hrs of turbine flying, but the remaining 950hrs are no more "valuable" than flying an R44 for example.