I had 370ish hours when I left Melbourne in 2000 to go to the UK to look for a job flying. It was an expensive affair but all worth it in the end. I started doing meat bombing in a C206 and when I got 410 hours, was offered a job flying F27's doing night freight. Only had 40 hours on twins (doing the IR) and about 1.5 hours command on twins (solo etc).
Our company has just lost 15 pilots from the Shed fleet, most of them going to easyJet and a few from the F27 fleet. I think things are moving a little especially in the lower end Turbo-Prop jobs.