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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,519
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,938
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 43,061
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,807
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,115
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 882
  • Number of ads currently posted: 93
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 814,271
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 93,101
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,522,389
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 250,145
  • 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
664
1,239
135
4.92
Any field
2,442
3,879
3,080
0.79
Applied microeconomics
745
1,594
136
5.48
Behavioral Economics
1,736
6,394
777
2.23
Business Economics
1,584
5,018
696
2.28
Computational Economics
418
3,114
383
1.09
Decision Sciences
213
1,721
191
1.12
Development; Growth
5,057
11,115
908
5.57
Econometrics
4,308
12,869
1,608
2.68
Economic History
767
2,367
253
3.03
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,171
6,021
988
4.22
Experimental Economics
939
4,003
484
1.94
Finance
9,006
11,311
1,533
5.87
Health; Education; Welfare
3,091
7,162
840
3.68
Industrial Organization
2,781
6,319
975
2.85
Insurance
72
593
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,899
5,732
750
2.53
International Trade
2,505
5,284
704
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,515
9,984
1,113
4.06
Law and Economics
359
2,064
351
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,204
10,542
1,493
4.83
Management, General
896
1,992
197
4.55
Management, Health Care
58
479
67
0.87
Management, Information Technology
174
634
79
2.20
Marketing
653
1,264
166
3.93
Microeconomic theory
359
629
61
5.89
Microeconomics
3,813
10,555
1,330
2.87
Operations Research
293
1,161
168
1.74
Organizational Behavior
203
1,046
122
1.66
Other
1,113
3,147
698
1.59
Political Economy
1,698
5,697
559
3.04
Public Economics
2,241
7,886
1,044
2.15
Real Estate
146
1,057
92
1.59
Statistics
342
2,354
350
0.98
Theory
874
2,957
346
2.53
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,041
4,044
466
2.23