If you change jobs often, you need a strong, credible narrative as to why you left each position and how this fits into your consistent career goals. This may be the only reason why an employer restores you the benefit of the doubt. If you are consistent in where you do well, then the employer can weigh whether you will do well at his company. In a market favoring IT applicants, I've found some employers who are even biased to believe.
Successfully tracing your narrative (rather than the various reasons this or that place was unsuitable) through multiple hops can assuage any guilty wonderment as to whether you are capable of staying in one place at all if you don't already have proof of tenure written into your resume.
A narrative helps you. Unless you like that changing often for change's sake (I don't), creating the narrative depends on you figuring out what is working and what is not in your career evolution. Knowing yourself makes for a stronger individual and a more focused producer.
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