Although there are dire warnings and grim predictions for post election cuts across the public sector, last quarterly's CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook survey of almost 800 employers signals that the UK's emergence out of recession is now leading to better job prospects.The reports suggests that whilst public sector employers are radically more pessimistic about employment intentions compared with three months ago, private sector employers are more optimistic about creating jobs in the second quarter of 2010.The overall net balance between the percentage of employers expecting to recruit and those expecting to cut staff across all sectors of the economy is now positive for the first time since Winter 2008. The findings show the sharp bounce back in the private sector recorded growth of almost a third over the quarterly period, extending into sectors previously affected by the recession such as construction - including trade skills like electrical and plumbing - and manufacturing.The findings, once again, reinforce past government initiatives and future plans to encourage the raising of the numbers undertaking skilled training and qualifications with emphasis on increased apprenticeships and the urgent rolling out of green energy programmes. In other words, improving your work and career change prospects will be dependent on completing training courses leading to recognised and approved qualifications.In the construction industry, the key skills of the electrical and plumbing trades, traditionally, are always in demand in both the commercial and domestic, residential areas. Entry level training is open to all applicants, whatever their previous experience, on either the Electrical NVQ 2330 level 2 for those training to be an electrician or the Plumbing NVQ 6129 level 2 for learning plumbing.Successful completion of these 'knowledge underpinning' courses allows progression onto NVQ at level 3 in order to be considered sufficiently 'competent' to go on to enter the industry under apprenticeship schemes.Developing more apprenticeships is central to plans by political parties and anyone undertaking a skills training course now is likely to extremely well placed for career development and gaining employment in the immediate and longer term future. The KPMG report also highlighted the increased job prospects in London and the South East, which are forecast to be the main engines of growth. The overall net balance for London and the south of England has risen sharply to +21% from -3% and the predicted average pay award will increase by at least 2% in the private sector in the twelve months to April 2011.