As a scheme that would be of potential interest to me, i can only think, that CTC may be counting on the fact that the time taken to complete assessments, train people up and sit in the hold pool (which based on other posts is months!), means that they would potentially be looking to place someone sometime next year. Perhaps they expect the industry to pickup in 2009. Based on the government's 'optimistic' projections in the budget, the economy should start to pickup late this year and recover at a reasonable pace next year?