Dole recipients blasted by Sydney trucking company as many applicants refuse to show up

Fed up businesses have spoken out about the lazy Centrelink recipients applying for jobs with no intentions of actually working.

Warren and Tania, who run a small trucking business in Sydney, and have been struggling to get applicants through the door.

Those on Centrelink are required to apply for a certain amount of jobs in order to get payments but many instead simply submit applications for jobs they have no qualifications for just to get the benefits.

Tania said she and her husband had been trying to track down applicants but many either don’t answer or say they aren’t qualified.

‘Most people don’t respond to the ads, we ask them to call, they don’t call they send an email that they’re not qualified,’ she told 2GB’s Ben Fordham.

‘They then don’t answer the phone when we do call them, if they say they’re going to turn up to the interview, they don’t turn up.’

She said she had multiple jobs available but many of the applicants didn’t show much ‘enthusiasm’.

‘Sometimes they don’t even know what the job is they’ve applied for,’ she said.

‘We don’t even get to a point of talking about the benefits that we can offer if they come work with us, they hang up or they turn their phones off.

‘If they do entertain the idea of coming to try out the job they then don’t show up.’

The couple aren’t alone in their struggle with Superior People Recruitment director Graham Wynn earlier revealing his company received countless bogus job applications from people on welfare who had no intention of working. 

He said rorters were handing in dodgy resumes to meet requirements to apply for a large number of jobs in order to receive unemployment payments.

Anti-vaxxers, part-time university students, and unmotivated high school dropouts were among the welfare cheats he caught rorting the system. 

Many businesses have struggled to get new applicants as some prefer to stay on government benefits (pictured closed sign in Sydney) 

Some were deliberately applying for jobs they were underqualified for after seeing ads by the agency, which operates in Victoria, NSW, Queensland and New Zealand. 

Mr Wynn said 20 per cent of applications sent to his recruitment agency came from people he accused of trying to cheat the system.

More than 2,000 applicants have been reported to authorities in as little as two months.

One resume contained six measly words – ‘I don’t have a resume atm (at the moment),’

Meanwhile, dole recipient and Sydney-based music producer ‘Mumfighter’ posted a video to his social media accounts on Wednesday showing the ridiculously quick way he meets government requirements for the JobSeeker payment. 

Mumfighter filmed a video where he challenged himself to send 15 job applications in eight minutes – and claims in the clip that he actually smashed it out in three minutes and 22 seconds. 

Under JobSeeker’s so-called mutual obligation requirements, anyone who receives the government payment – which starts at $642.70 a fortnight – is expected to search for jobs for 15 to 29 hours per week. 

Data from March has revealed more than 900,000 Australians were currently receiving JobSeeker payments. The country’s unemployment rate is at its lowest in 13 years

They must apply for a set number of positions each month – but he managed to do most of them in one day in a ‘speed run’. 

The video shows Mumfighter filling out his official Centrelink Jobactive page with the relevant information on the jobs he had just applied for. 

The former pro rollerblader and rollerblade instructor said he made the video for fun as he likes to ‘pretend to do things faster than the average human’ and normally takes the task much more seriously. 

‘In reality applying for jobs normally takes me anywhere from 1-3 hours depending on if I need to rewrite my resume slightly and how much I’m being hindered by my ADHD,’ Mumfighter told Daily Mail Australia. 

While Mumfighter appeared to apply for 15 jobs in the video, he later said that he actually only applied for one during that time. 

Mumfighter recorded a ‘Centrelink speed run’ which showed the JobSeeker apply for 15 jobs in under 5 minutes (pictured)

However, he labelled Centrelink’s mutual obligation requirements ‘arbitrary’ and believes individuals would have a higher success rate with a lower minimum requirement. 

‘If I had to do only five then the quality could be better – employers definitely get spammed with too many applications for nearly every role so this would be good for both parties involved.’ 

Data from March has revealed more than 900,000 Australians were currently receiving JobSeeker payments. The country’s unemployment rate is at its lowest in 13 years.