&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>I don&#x27;t know about the US, but at least here those who are out of work and on unemployment benefit (or, here, Job Seekers Allowance) have to &quot;prove to [their] work coach that [they&#x27;ve] been looking for work&quot;. From those I know (and these are predominantly STEM people) who&#x27;ve been unable to get work after graduating, spending too much time on one application is considered faffing around—and if your &quot;work coach&quot; thinks you haven&#x27;t been looking for work hard enough, they can lose their only income. So, what do they do? Apply with 100 sanitised applications, and get rejected everywhere (at the low-end because no service job will hire them because they&#x27;re viewed as leaving at the first opportunity, and at graduate jobs because they don&#x27;t have enough work experience).