This is what I've read numerous times on this site: Keep building your hours now and when the industry is looking better and carriers are hiring, you'll be more than ready.
This thread made sense in Spring of 2007.
Thinking about putting any work in as a flight instructor before seeking employment at a 121 operation?
Do you have a good flight instructing gig you could hook him up with?
Sure, they're out there. . .might required relocating, of which he is clearly willing to do since he wants to work for a regional.
Most importantly, the job market isn't so friendly to 250/190 hour wonders anymore - hate to be honest, but that's just the way it is.
Currently working towards my CSEL/CMEL ratings and was wondering if it would be wise to apply to the regionals after getting the ratings, even though I will not be at minimums. Or should I wait until I get to the mins to apply?
That said, consider this: Do you really think, at CPL minimums, you are ready to assume command of a 50,000 pound jet with 50 souls on board, in bad weather, with mechanical problems, and an incapacitated Captain? It could happen. It's happened before.
I knew a Check airman at a regional that had a massive heart attack in the airport terminal and was less than an hour from letting a guy on his second day of flying a jet, fly it single pilot.