I've been to a couple of hiring seminars about what the regionals are looking for and for people who don't have the ME time and meet the TT mins but have the RJ Standards course taken, it makes them much more competitive due to the fact that those courses are geared towards initial OE training course work. I'd get the ME time and actually instruct to really get a solid knowledge base. I like ASA as well, but if you read on here many people don't.