&gt; Job seekers are much better served spending an hour sending 10 focused applications than spending that same hour to send 100 sanitized applications.<p>Let&#x27;s assume that you have a 1 in 20 chance on the focused applications, and a 1 in 200 chance on the sanitized ones.<p>Then the odds that you are offered at least one job, is 40.13% for the focused ones, and 39.42% for the sanitized ones.<p>I&#x27;m not sure the emotional investment is enough to justify the difference in likelihood of landing a job.