Should you appear desperate for redundancy?

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To answer a couple of questions, in a nutshell, the details passed over when I transferred into current company was 2.5x notice period (which is currently 12 weeks) so that's 30 weeks worth (I know of a few people that have been made redundant after bench time, at least one of which had 12 years in so they're not totally against it so it seems.

Contract on offer ATM is 400/day. Even taking into account lack of holiday/sick pay etc. it's still well worth it to me financially.

HOWEVER - you could sign a 6-month contract and then get canned after a week. Or even before you turn up... you could give notice and agree the contract, only to have the client suddenly realise they can't afford it. This kind of thing is rare and bad luck, but DOES happen and if you have no savings, you're playing a high-risk game... one you probably can't afford to lose.