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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 67,402
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 9,429
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 42,141
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,553
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,068
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 856
  • Number of ads currently posted: 390
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 790,048
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 92,390
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,454,704
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 254,835
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 19,188
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 4,645 (25.0%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,184 (27.9%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,206 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,678 (9.0%)
    • > 24 hours: 1,893 (10.2%)

All candidates and jobs posted since inception

Details by year
Field
Candidates' primary
Candidates' other
Job postings
Candidates (primary field) per posting
Accounting
642
1,187
134
4.79
Any field
2,277
3,691
2,991
0.76
Applied microeconomics
459
974
70
6.56
Behavioral Economics
1,661
6,137
743
2.24
Business Economics
1,534
4,864
672
2.28
Computational Economics
385
2,996
370
1.04
Decision Sciences
199
1,658
185
1.08
Development; Growth
4,878
10,638
877
5.56
Econometrics
4,141
12,373
1,570
2.64
Economic History
743
2,279
243
3.06
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,036
5,738
946
4.27
Experimental Economics
922
3,867
466
1.98
Finance
8,833
10,990
1,489
5.93
Health; Education; Welfare
3,031
6,964
805
3.77
Industrial Organization
2,746
6,209
960
2.86
Insurance
71
577
69
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,868
5,584
727
2.57
International Trade
2,449
5,118
683
3.59
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,414
9,685
1,071
4.12
Law and Economics
349
2,013
344
1.01
Macroeconomics; Monetary
6,994
10,128
1,448
4.83
Management, General
873
1,932
194
4.50
Management, Health Care
57
469
64
0.89
Management, Information Technology
170
618
77
2.21
Marketing
639
1,231
166
3.85
Microeconomic theory
267
424
45
5.93
Microeconomics
3,914
10,876
1,330
2.94
Operations Research
284
1,119
166
1.71
Organizational Behavior
194
1,009
117
1.66
Other
1,064
3,044
674
1.58
Political Economy
1,622
5,450
533
3.04
Public Economics
2,170
7,612
1,009
2.15
Real Estate
140
1,033
91
1.54
Statistics
314
2,216
339
0.93
Theory
907
3,058
346
2.62
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,015
3,895
444
2.29