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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,688
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 9,117
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 43,083
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,812
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,118
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 871
  • Number of ads currently posted: 65
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 814,569
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 93,206
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,522,848
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 250,312
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,589
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,151 (24.6%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,880 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,871 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,926 (9.2%)
    • > 24 hours: 2,110 (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
1,242
136
4.88
Any field
2,454
3,894
3,085
0.80
Applied microeconomics
763
1,642
142
5.37
Behavioral Economics
1,746
6,431
780
2.24
Business Economics
1,582
5,030
700
2.26
Computational Economics
419
3,124
387
1.08
Decision Sciences
214
1,729
191
1.12
Development; Growth
5,074
11,151
909
5.58
Econometrics
4,318
12,904
1,612
2.68
Economic History
769
2,382
253
3.04
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,186
6,051
992
4.22
Experimental Economics
943
4,014
487
1.94
Finance
9,019
11,333
1,540
5.86
Health; Education; Welfare
3,097
7,182
843
3.67
Industrial Organization
2,783
6,331
978
2.85
Insurance
72
594
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,903
5,746
754
2.52
International Trade
2,508
5,300
705
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,527
10,022
1,115
4.06
Law and Economics
360
2,069
353
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,221
10,585
1,500
4.81
Management, General
898
1,997
198
4.54
Management, Health Care
58
480
68
0.85
Management, Information Technology
175
638
82
2.13
Marketing
654
1,265
166
3.94
Microeconomic theory
370
653
63
5.87
Microeconomics
3,808
10,540
1,330
2.86
Operations Research
293
1,164
169
1.73
Organizational Behavior
203
1,051
122
1.66
Other
1,115
3,158
706
1.58
Political Economy
1,705
5,725
561
3.04
Public Economics
2,245
7,909
1,051
2.14
Real Estate
146
1,058
92
1.59
Statistics
342
2,362
352
0.97
Theory
871
2,948
346
2.52
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,044
4,058
466
2.24