Dive Summary:

• Although the Sanitation Department in New York is planning to employ 300 new workers from August to October, the city will not offer an exam until October 1, 2014 at the earliest.
• The department instead will sift through 30,000 tests that were taken in 2007.
• The waiting list to take the sanitation exam contains more than 25,000 names, and remains one of the city's most popular civil service exams.

From the article:

More than 40,000 people signed up to take it in 2007. Back in the 1980s, close to 100,000 people applied to take the test.

Earlier this year, the city weighed whether to hold a lottery for people interested in the exam, but officials backed away from that plan.

Promotional exams were announced for two jobs within the agency: sanitation supervisor and associate sanitation enforcement agent.