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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,181
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,648
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 42,975
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,799
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,107
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 875
  • Number of ads currently posted: 136
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 813,425
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 92,922
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,521,018
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 249,951
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,574
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,149 (24.6%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,877 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,866 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,922 (9.2%)
    • > 24 hours: 2,109 (10.1%)

All candidates and jobs posted since inception

Details by year
Field
Candidates' primary
Candidates' other
Job postings
Candidates (primary field) per posting
Accounting
661
1,233
135
4.90
Any field
2,409
3,840
3,066
0.79
Applied microeconomics
709
1,507
126
5.63
Behavioral Economics
1,727
6,359
768
2.25
Business Economics
1,579
4,999
690
2.29
Computational Economics
414
3,095
382
1.08
Decision Sciences
211
1,714
189
1.12
Development; Growth
5,036
11,042
906
5.56
Econometrics
4,273
12,782
1,600
2.67
Economic History
764
2,354
250
3.06
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,153
5,996
982
4.23
Experimental Economics
938
3,984
482
1.95
Finance
8,981
11,265
1,527
5.88
Health; Education; Welfare
3,079
7,124
837
3.68
Industrial Organization
2,776
6,295
972
2.86
Insurance
72
591
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,890
5,697
749
2.52
International Trade
2,500
5,263
703
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,492
9,935
1,109
4.05
Law and Economics
357
2,055
351
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,165
10,462
1,486
4.82
Management, General
895
1,988
196
4.57
Management, Health Care
58
479
67
0.87
Management, Information Technology
174
634
78
2.23
Marketing
652
1,261
166
3.93
Microeconomic theory
348
608
56
6.21
Microeconomics
3,821
10,585
1,330
2.87
Operations Research
291
1,153
166
1.75
Organizational Behavior
203
1,042
121
1.68
Other
1,102
3,134
693
1.59
Political Economy
1,686
5,658
555
3.04
Public Economics
2,236
7,847
1,037
2.16
Real Estate
142
1,051
92
1.54
Statistics
336
2,332
347
0.97
Theory
877
2,968
346
2.53
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,035
4,017
463
2.24