One other case I've seen of a 'useful' cover letter was from someone who wanted to completely change fields. The cover letter explained while they had no educat

One other case I've seen of a 'useful' cover letter was from someone who wanted to completely change fields. The cover letter explained while they had no education on the field and had never worked in the field, they where passionate about it and spent the past several years of free time doing it as hobby. That was enough to get them an interview, despite their 'irrelevant' CV, and the interview was good enough to get them hired