I need a seasonal job to tide me over - my state disability has run out and I do not have a professional job yet - phone screens lined up, but that is all. For professional jobs, now it is almost a dead season (many companies close for the holidays), but for retail, it is THE season.

I am a project manager, so I have put together a lightweight resume - just one page, instead of 2.5 ages of my professional resume - that highlights transferable skills (organization skills, accuracy and attention to detail, clear communication, multi-tasking, customer service, professional demeanor, team worker etc.). My plan it to go to Kinko's to print many of those out in color, put in a folder, and go to several shopping centers, from one store to the next, asking if they need help for Christmas.

I know that I would look far better in person - I engage with people easily - so this method is preferable to submitting applications online for me, but I wonder if this low tech store-to-store walking is even practiced these days. My childhood friend got get first job in retail going store-to-store, but... it was not in this century.

Opinions?