When desperation set in in the mid nineties, I printed my CV on the inside of Christmas cards and sent then out. It didn't get an interview, but I got lots of very nice rejections, particularly from a proper gent who was the DFO of AirUK at the time. Sadly, the old adage, 'its not what you know, its who you know' was actually required to actually get a job. Still the case I would think.