Looking for work

Looking for employment is a difficult enough task at the best of times, the current economic climate makes it all the more difficult.
My (off-line) career has been very varied, but I have managed to stay employed in some capacity or other for all but a few weeks of my working life. I have found that temporary work is a good way into permanent employment, and would always seek to take any job whilst planning the next move rather than spend my time job-seeking during working hours.
My argument is that employers want to employ someone who is working (at least in some capacity) in preference to someone who is actually labelled as 'unemployed' especially as they length of that unemployment stretched from weeks into months.