This is so true, we have found that not necessarilly retention, but enrollment into additional training areas is definately down if it is made known that there are few jobs available at this time. I have had several students ask "why should I continue in the program if there are not going to hardly be any jobs when I finish". I had a perfect example of this not even two weeks ago. I had a former graduate student contact me via e-mail, telling me he has been having a hard time finding a job at his local dealership. He then stated because of this, he feels he had wasted his time completing manufacturer specific training. I had to reassure him that, no education is a waste of your time, how you use that education and how you make a future interviewer understand the importance of that additional education is nothing short of selling yourself for a positive end result. We as educator's sometimes have to help future, current, or graduate students sometimes understand the importance of their education not only for a career goal, but how that education can, and/or has made them a better person for it.