Update:
It's actually looking a bit more hopeful. They way I thought they'd explained it was that if you were at risk you were basically gone unless you could talk then out of it. This morning it seems that 2/3rds of the company are at risk and it's genuinely up in the air who will stay and who will go. Potentially my whole department's for the axe. Anyway I'm going to do the best I can to fight to keep my job but I won't know for sure until the 17th, so still updating my CV, and battening down the hatches.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 31 Jan 2012, 10:49, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Start looking for new jobs straight away.
Call up all the recruitment firms you can and then call them all again every week at least, keep your name fresh in their minds so that they will throw things your way to stop you hassling them.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 31 Jan 2012, 10:51, Reply)

This sounds slightly more positive
but, like you say don't piss about and get ahead of the game.

Also, if you register your details with Total Jobs and specify the type of work you're looking for you should get an email everyday notifying you of all new vacancies. The only down side is that they are UK wide and not area specific (unless there's a way of narrowing the field down that I haven't spotted).
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 31 Jan 2012, 10:55, Reply)

I must have fucked up a Monster search as I wanted ICT Consultant but seem to get Sales Consultant ones

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 31 Jan 2012, 10:56, Reply)

I keep getting health service notifications from Total Jobs.
Also, Monster's layout annoys me for some reason.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 31 Jan 2012, 11:04, Reply)