By Eve Tahmincioglu

I was watching CBS’ Sunday Morning’s story on unemployed Baby Boomers this weekend and at the end of the piece a jobless salesman named Gary Boxhall, 65, talks about his frustration looking for work since 2009, but ends on a I’m-not-giving-up note:

“I’ll still send out resumes just in case. I think that’s kind of like going fishing. But I think if you really want to catch the fish, you’re going to have to get in your boat, and you’re going to have to row over to the business and knock on the door.”

I thought to myself, what a quaint, old-fashioned notion. Does anyone actually knock on company doors anymore? And if you’re trying to get into a multi-national conglomerate, which door would you knock on anyway?... More...