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The more information and choices you have in front of you, the harder it is to narrow your focus on the right opportunities. Pair information overload, inbound requests from recruiters, and jobs ads that find you with the sales and marketing messaging built into the recruiting process, and there is the chance that youβll end up applying to, interviewing for and accepting a job that sounded great all along but is not what youβre interested in doing. Iβve seen this play out time and time again and even had it happen to me.