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A few years after I got hired my boss mentioned that they had hundreds of applicants, but my resume stood out because I included a custom cover letter.
This was my first job after I graduated college in 1992. That was in the days when you could pick up a newspaper and see job listings in the classified section.
I admitted to my boss that the cover letter was a mail merge document. I had created a spreadsheet listing the name, address, etc. for dozens of positions from the classifieds and added one sentence specific to the job for every one.
The job was in IT, so it probably turns out that faking a custom cover letter counted as proof of qualifications.
Every job I've had since then was due to networking that all ties back to that first job.