Seasonal hiring: what is paying well this year? after 8 years as a data-entry clerk

A retailer and two warehouses near Minneapolis are hiring seasonal staff. I worked as a data-entry clerk before this. I would like to avoid a gap in my résumé. Has anyone been converted to permanent?

Keep everything in writing and save the confirmation numbers. It made the follow-up calls so much easier.

Keep a list of supervisors' names. A reference from one of them helped me land my next job.