Can my values define my job search?

Sometimes because of X or Y, Z reason, you can't always be intentional about these kind of things, or you can't always pick and choose because we don't live in an idealistic world. But, I think, the more I evolve in my career, the more I want to be surrounded by people I really look up to, the more I want to do projects that have meaning and have a really useful impact on people, and the more I want to be aligned with that internal value system. And sometimes there are still things that are in contradiction, cognitive dissonance is part of my life as well. But it's a long process to try to align all of these things and be intentional.