EconJobMarket®

EJM system overview

The Econ Job Market^® system serves as a central electronic repository for job-market advertisements, application materials, and reference letters. EJM also provides tools for applicants to sort advertisements and manage their applications, and for recruiters to evaluate applications, schedule interviews with applicants they select, and download applicants' files.

The EJM system is easy to use. Papers, reference letters, and other information need to be submitted only once, rather than separately to each organization to which a candidate applies. Here is a time line to describe how the system works.

1. Recruiters post advertisements, which include specifications of the information and materials required of applicants. Recruiters are checked for authenticity before being allowed to post advertisements and receive applications. Concurrently, candidates register and upload basic biographical information, curricula vitae, papers, and other documents.
2. Candidates apply for jobs using the links on econjobmarket.org. References (or their staff representatives, called "proxies") upload their letters of recommendation. References can, if they wish, submit multiple letters for the same candidate and designate which letter goes to each specific organization to which a candidate applies.
3. Recruiters decide how they would like to receive and process applications. Recruiters can review applications on the EJM website, using our evaluation tools, or they can have the application materials automatically and securely transferred to any third-party review system (including their internal human-resource systems and commercially provided systems). For a summary of all of the options, see the information-for-recruiters page. EJM is committed to internalizing externalities by facilitating interoperability between the various application-processing systems that recruiters use.
4. Recruiters set up their calendar of interview slots (at a job market meeting or elsewhere). Recruiters can specify different types of slots for different fields of specialization and for multiple interview teams. Recruiters then select which candidates to interview and the system does the rest, automatically emailing the candidates and helping them self-select into the calendar slots.

Econ Job Market Inc. is a nonprofit charity (a 501c3 organization) with a mandate to charge only the level of fees needed to maintain and develop the system. Here is the current schedule of minimal required fees. All prices are in USD. We offer discounts to organizations in low-income countries. Please contact us for details.