I find Redsnail's stats post very interesting.
Really only 25% of their ATPL class went onto to work in the industry? Shocking.
I have tried trawling for post training employment figures in this industry (past the OAA spiel which seems pointless for a couple of reasons) and this information is quite hard to come by, if not impossible.
But then I suppose the uptake on courses might not be so good if it was generally known that your 40-80k stake buys you e.g. a 1 in 4 chance of a job.
It really seems to be all about timing, persistence, and the ever present "6 P's", of which one component is definitely coming onto fora such as this, and reading what WWW and others have to say, being as they are old hands at commercial flying.
Good luck all.
JR