Chances of unemployment are very high doing that program anyway. With the financial situation of the air berlin group and no planned expansion as well as a 20% surplus of pilots in air berlin, chances are kinda low to get a seat in one of their flight decks past the line training (which is part of the flight training contract). The last hired cadets only got part time contracts (50% part time) and there are several courses out of flight training with no job offer at all.

Currently air berlin tries everything to get mainline pilots on secondments to other airlines to avoid having to fire them, which they couldn't afford as it would bankrupt the company.