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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 68,702
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,653
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 42,839
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,787
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,098
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 878
  • Number of ads currently posted: 168
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 811,895
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 92,519
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,518,337
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 249,399
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,548
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,147 (24.6%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,872 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,862 (28.1%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,916 (9.2%)
    • > 24 hours: 2,100 (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
657
1,218
135
4.87
Any field
2,364
3,791
3,057
0.77
Applied microeconomics
647
1,370
115
5.63
Behavioral Economics
1,708
6,306
763
2.24
Business Economics
1,566
4,961
688
2.28
Computational Economics
404
3,057
382
1.06
Decision Sciences
208
1,697
187
1.11
Development; Growth
5,000
10,936
898
5.57
Econometrics
4,225
12,647
1,599
2.64
Economic History
760
2,333
247
3.08
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,130
5,937
975
4.24
Experimental Economics
933
3,949
477
1.96
Finance
8,945
11,202
1,520
5.88
Health; Education; Welfare
3,065
7,084
828
3.70
Industrial Organization
2,768
6,266
968
2.86
Insurance
72
587
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,885
5,666
744
2.53
International Trade
2,484
5,228
700
3.55
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,464
9,855
1,101
4.05
Law and Economics
356
2,041
350
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,130
10,384
1,479
4.82
Management, General
888
1,973
196
4.53
Management, Health Care
56
475
66
0.85
Management, Information Technology
170
626
78
2.18
Marketing
650
1,256
166
3.92
Microeconomic theory
337
575
54
6.24
Microeconomics
3,836
10,632
1,330
2.88
Operations Research
291
1,146
166
1.75
Organizational Behavior
202
1,035
120
1.68
Other
1,094
3,108
689
1.59
Political Economy
1,672
5,602
549
3.05
Public Economics
2,215
7,773
1,034
2.14
Real Estate
142
1,045
92
1.54
Statistics
325
2,283
346
0.94
Theory
880
2,982
346
2.54
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,034
3,985
461
2.24