The researchers also found that the youth training experience was not itself marketable to employers. In some cases it even had a stigma attached to it, so that the trainee's chance of getting a job was worse after than before the 'training'. Although a relatively high proportion of the trainees whom they studied did get jobs after the scheme, they were often in low-status or unskilled occupations. The main contribution to any job-hunting success the trainees had appeared to come from the fact that employers were using the scheme as a probationary period for potential new staff.