But have you ever encountered a candidate so desperate to avoid work that they’ve turned up to a job interview dressed as… Superman?

Australia’s Courier Mail reports that’s precisely what happened in the case of a Queensland farming-linked business, who showed their local MP Keith Pitt footage of the man attending a job interview dressed as a superhero and carrying a can of Red Bull.

Pitt, who said the incident reflected the extreme lengths some welfare recipients will go to not to get a job, told the paper: “The level of complaints and issues I get about the inability to find employees for a variety of industries has been increasing.’’ 

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