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Narrowing Your Possibilities Can Actually Expand Your Choices in a Job Search
A lot of people fall into the common job search trap of thinking too generally about their goals. On the surface it seems like a good plan; keep your options as open as possible and you therefore keep yourself in the
running for as many jobs as possible. But the truth of the matter is that you're much better off narrowing your focus and pursuing one very specific job in one specific field.

Why Narrowing Your Job Search is More Effective

Being Focused Implies You're an Expert
When you declare that you only do a certain tightly focused range of skills in a specific profession, people automatically assume you're an expert on the subject. Not that there aren't extremely knowledgeable generalists. But we've been conditioned to think that people who exclude all but a tiny range of activity from their repertoire must be the best. This implication is undeniably powerful and can be applied to almost any discipline. Use it in your job search and watch the results pour in.

Specialists Are More in Demand for Most Professions
As the world changes faster and gets more complex, it's becoming nearly impossible for any one person to know all there is to know about a given activity. Not in the sort of nuance and detail required to do it in a competitive professional manner anyway. And so businesses are less and less interested in generalists, favoring instead specialists who are focused on one valuable discipline. When you're planning your job search, take advantage of this trend and present yourself accordingly.

You Don't Waste Time Jumping Around in Your Job Search
When you focus on one type of job, preferably in one specific industry, you continually gain deeper knowledge of it. One conversation with someone in a particular field leads to another more significant one higher up. You read one article in the field and it points to another, which leads to an interview with a key player. And so on. When you focus very precisely your job search builds, one thing on top of another. You don't waste your time constantly learning the people, places, and positions.

Being Focused Shows Passion and Confidence

Along with the idea of specialists being experts, is the very common assumption that specialists are passionate, confident, and experienced in their narrow niche. They must be right, otherwise why would they have chosen to work exclusively in one particular segment of their profession? Although certainly not true for every specialist, you should nonetheless use this perception to your advantage in your job search, by defining exactly what you're best at and what you have the most experience in.

You Might Enjoy Your Work More
Focusing and specializing your job search forces you to define the things you're really good at. And those are the things people tend to enjoy doing most. Being a specialist gives you license to apply yourself to what you're most interested in, which gives you more confidence and passion. And that causes people to let you do more of those things you specialize in -- a happy self-perpetuating circle.

So take a good look at what you like doing and what you're best at. Then consider making that your niche. Although it can be a little scary narrowing your choices in a job search, you'll find that being a specialist tends to actually open doors and widen your possibilities.