I went to Comair Aviation Academy. They said 98% got job offers in their advertising. If they had 100 students who finished all their training, and they needed only 10 of them as flight instructors, they hired only ten, the others had to got away to other flight schools. When they had 700 hours they fired 5 and let five start their qualification cours, if all got hired 100% of their students gots jobs, even if 95 never got the chance. Thats American marketing.

from what I here of CTC, I think a 98% success record is not unreasonable for them - if you understand what their statistics mean (which is what people have been discussing at length in this thread).

CTC have almost exclusivity with Easyjet recruitment (apart from a small proportion recently from a well known P2F merchant) and have been known to get candidates recruited where others have failed - even in recent times I have heard of pilots attaining employment with the likes of Tiger, Aer Lingus etc.

My interpretation is that their statistics mean... that if you sucessfully complete the course with the required credentials and are prepared to wait forever, there is a 98% chance of attaining employment for you. I have heard they are/were taking pilots on their 'ATP' - Post CPL/IR programme and have clearly stated they are in no position to offer employment at the moment because they have a hold-pool full of cadets they are trying to place (there is a thread somewhere on it). Also I have heard of cadets being in the 'pool' for well-over a year and even have secured a temporary contract and being put back in the pool and lastly that some people also gain employment off their own back - nothing to do with CTC's assistance and yet are included within this 98%.

So in short, (as others have said)be careful of what you interpret as 98%.

With schemes such as Easyjet and Ryanair SSTRs, are many people offered permanent contracts after line training? or are they always replaced with the 'next lamb in the slaughter queue'?