Contract pilots - a question about types

[chickenorrbeef]

for those of you who work for parc, or hacs, or rishworth etc. all those jobs listed as needing a type with time even for an FO position, can you tell me how you got your types beforehand? I realize some people are furloughed from previous jobs that were typed, but for the rest of us who have been employed elsewhere that dont offer these types, I am wondering how you got yours, or is there something I am missing?
thanks!

[D.O.G]

I asked a similar question of PARC sometime ago. Reference the recency for a type I hold and not flown for a while, whether it would be ok to do a self sponsor a sim check instead of the requirement of flown type in x years and the response was no go you must have flown type and I even gather that was to be with an airline.

That expolated would indicate a raw self sponsored type rating is useless.

HAC couldn’t be bothered responding maybe too busy with too many crew.