Despite the expected upturn a quarter of Brits are planning to quit their jobs and start a more secure profession in 2010.

Monster.co.uk believes the workers’ response to the recession is fears over job security.

Additionally, a huge 46 per cent of Brits polled said that their career prospects for 2010 were very gloomy and that they were extremely worried, but had no plans to change jobs.

Remarkably only 20 per cent of survey respondents said that they were feeling optimistic about their careers in 2010.