The Cadet scheme is a complete waste of time, the facts are if people leaving school see aviation as a career (read reward for investment) they will put all their energy into it, via training and gaining experience. Conditions as always will dictate the numbers going through to their ultimate choices.
The industry has to realise that people see the various areas of aviation as career choices, regional, domestic and international, and therefore should understand that they have to compete to get capable pilots to join their ranks.
Currently regional management for instance sees no need to try and retain staff as they have some misguided notional idea that everyone employed in the regional airlines will leave if offered a jet job, some of course will but some if offered good wages and conditions would love to stay and make a career of a regional airline. The same applies to Qantas for instance, some pilots detest the idea of long haul but have to become a long haul second officer before becoming a domestic pilot their ultimate choice, some of course want to do nothing but long haul.
I personally hope this is the end of the cadet scheme, it is seen, rightly or wrongly, as a quick track into Qantas for the wealthy or related.
I have nothing against current cadets.