The computerised selection tests are clearly a transatlantic piece of inanity:

The British labour market is a puzzle. On the one hand, it’s a low-wage economy that needs to import sandwich-makers from Hungary because nobody in Northamptonshire wants the job. On the other, to work in a shop that sells the selfsame sandwiches, the jobseeker needs to pass an exam that might give pause to a fellow of All Souls.

Source: Sorry, would-be sandwich makers: you?ll find it much harder to get a job than I did | Ian Jack | Comment is free | The Guardian