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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 68,908
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,640
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 42,884
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,790
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,101
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 869
  • Number of ads currently posted: 157
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 812,582
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 92,720
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,519,582
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 249,691
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,552
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,148 (24.6%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,873 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,863 (28.1%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,917 (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
659
1,226
135
4.88
Any field
2,379
3,810
3,062
0.78
Applied microeconomics
677
1,427
115
5.89
Behavioral Economics
1,721
6,334
763
2.26
Business Economics
1,570
4,979
689
2.28
Computational Economics
409
3,073
382
1.07
Decision Sciences
209
1,706
187
1.12
Development; Growth
5,016
10,981
899
5.58
Econometrics
4,254
12,709
1,599
2.66
Economic History
761
2,341
247
3.08
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,140
5,960
975
4.25
Experimental Economics
934
3,968
477
1.96
Finance
8,956
11,222
1,520
5.89
Health; Education; Welfare
3,072
7,105
831
3.70
Industrial Organization
2,770
6,278
969
2.86
Insurance
72
591
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,891
5,684
744
2.54
International Trade
2,486
5,236
700
3.55
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,473
9,888
1,103
4.06
Law and Economics
357
2,048
350
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,149
10,420
1,479
4.83
Management, General
891
1,977
196
4.55
Management, Health Care
58
477
66
0.88
Management, Information Technology
170
628
78
2.18
Marketing
652
1,259
166
3.93
Microeconomic theory
340
590
54
6.30
Microeconomics
3,829
10,612
1,330
2.88
Operations Research
291
1,151
166
1.75
Organizational Behavior
202
1,038
120
1.68
Other
1,096
3,114
691
1.59
Political Economy
1,676
5,628
550
3.05
Public Economics
2,224
7,805
1,035
2.15
Real Estate
142
1,048
92
1.54
Statistics
329
2,299
346
0.95
Theory
879
2,975
346
2.54
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,035
4,000
462
2.24