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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,440
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,854
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 43,039
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,798
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,110
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 868
  • Number of ads currently posted: 83
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 814,031
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 92,936
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,522,045
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 250,027
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,586
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,150 (24.6%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,880 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,871 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,925 (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
1,236
135
4.90
Any field
2,438
3,875
3,075
0.79
Applied microeconomics
737
1,575
130
5.67
Behavioral Economics
1,734
6,385
771
2.25
Business Economics
1,582
5,015
695
2.28
Computational Economics
418
3,107
383
1.09
Decision Sciences
212
1,719
189
1.12
Development; Growth
5,053
11,094
909
5.56
Econometrics
4,301
12,854
1,605
2.68
Economic History
765
2,364
252
3.04
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,167
6,018
986
4.23
Experimental Economics
939
4,001
482
1.95
Finance
9,001
11,301
1,530
5.88
Health; Education; Welfare
3,086
7,151
839
3.68
Industrial Organization
2,780
6,314
971
2.86
Insurance
72
593
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,897
5,725
749
2.53
International Trade
2,503
5,281
704
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,511
9,976
1,113
4.05
Law and Economics
358
2,060
351
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,195
10,529
1,490
4.83
Management, General
896
1,990
196
4.57
Management, Health Care
58
479
67
0.87
Management, Information Technology
174
634
78
2.23
Marketing
653
1,262
167
3.91
Microeconomic theory
355
623
56
6.34
Microeconomics
3,815
10,564
1,330
2.87
Operations Research
292
1,157
166
1.76
Organizational Behavior
203
1,044
121
1.68
Other
1,111
3,145
695
1.60
Political Economy
1,693
5,687
559
3.03
Public Economics
2,240
7,876
1,040
2.15
Real Estate
144
1,054
92
1.57
Statistics
341
2,350
350
0.97
Theory
876
2,962
346
2.53
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,040
4,037
465
2.24