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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 67,791
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,941
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 42,521
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,750
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,082
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 870
  • Number of ads currently posted: 327
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 804,552
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 89,357
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,500,417
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 243,170
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,512
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,145 (24.7%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,868 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,843 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,912 (9.2%)
    • > 24 hours: 2,095 (10.0%)

All candidates and jobs posted since inception

Details by year
Field
Candidates' primary
Candidates' other
Job postings
Candidates (primary field) per posting
Accounting
653
1,208
135
4.84
Any field
2,284
3,700
3,018
0.76
Applied microeconomics
516
1,110
91
5.67
Behavioral Economics
1,678
6,186
752
2.23
Business Economics
1,542
4,894
676
2.28
Computational Economics
390
3,017
377
1.03
Decision Sciences
205
1,671
186
1.10
Development; Growth
4,908
10,728
890
5.51
Econometrics
4,160
12,444
1,582
2.63
Economic History
750
2,297
247
3.04
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,069
5,813
962
4.23
Experimental Economics
924
3,889
471
1.96
Finance
8,889
11,083
1,503
5.91
Health; Education; Welfare
3,046
7,007
816
3.73
Industrial Organization
2,755
6,233
964
2.86
Insurance
71
578
70
1.01
International Finance/Macro
1,874
5,613
733
2.56
International Trade
2,459
5,150
691
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,427
9,734
1,085
4.08
Law and Economics
352
2,018
344
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,021
10,203
1,464
4.80
Management, General
885
1,957
194
4.56
Management, Health Care
57
472
64
0.89
Management, Information Technology
170
620
78
2.18
Marketing
647
1,245
166
3.90
Microeconomic theory
304
482
51
5.96
Microeconomics
3,877
10,765
1,330
2.92
Operations Research
287
1,129
166
1.73
Organizational Behavior
198
1,024
118
1.68
Other
1,075
3,067
679
1.58
Political Economy
1,634
5,489
542
3.01
Public Economics
2,177
7,646
1,015
2.14
Real Estate
142
1,038
91
1.56
Statistics
318
2,237
341
0.93
Theory
891
3,009
346
2.58
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,017
3,916
452
2.25