In short: Students choose and leave career paths for reasons that are knowable, and the choice between recruiting more and keeping the ones you've got is answerable with what a program already tracks.
Students find a career path more easily than they stay on one. These pages cover career exploration that works, what helps students persist, and why younger workers leave their first jobs.
Pay matters, but it isn't the whole retention story. Growth, recognition, and meaningful work can shape whether employees see a future with your organization.
Work-based learning holds people when the mentoring layer is built on purpose, and whether it's working can be checked while it runs.