New Poll - Creative Job Seeking Techniques

It appears that most of you who chose to respond to last week's poll actually have a heart, even if you don't care if it's infested with the AIDS virus. 58% of you said that you would rather have AIDS than one of your children have AIDS, while the remaining 42% of you -- who will likely remain healthy beyond your years, albeit without children -- said that you would rather one of your children have AIDS than you yourself have it. Frankly, you can always have more kids.

This week's poll was prompted by something I saw this morning during rush hour at the corner of Wacker and Madison here in Chicago. A woman who appeared to be in her 20s was dressed in a nice gray business suit, over which she was wearing a sandwich board, which, on both sides, said, "Why Lie? I Need a Job." She and a non-sandwich-boarded friend each had a stack of resumes in their hands and were handing them out to anyone who would take them. I thought it was kind of pathetic, and I felt sorry for her. I did not take a resume. So what are your thoughts on this woman's sandwich-board-heavy attempt to market herself, or other so-called "creative" networking or job-seeking techniques (video resumes, singing telegrams, etc.)? If you were an HR coordinator and saw this (or another similar "creative" technique), what would you think? Is it effective (i.e., would it help her get her foot in the door)? Does it make her look desperate and pathetic (i.e., she has to do this in order for anyone to even look at her resume)? Does it show creativity and drive? Is it more likely to backfire than anything else? I'll let you vote on multiple options, since some of them are not mutually exclusive.