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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 67,987
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,745
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 42,618
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,766
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,086
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 863
  • Number of ads currently posted: 231
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 807,638
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 90,741
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,508,765
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 246,701
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,543
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,145 (24.6%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,873 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,859 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,917 (9.2%)
    • > 24 hours: 2,100 (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
656
1,211
135
4.86
Any field
2,292
3,715
3,030
0.76
Applied microeconomics
545
1,167
97
5.62
Behavioral Economics
1,685
6,213
756
2.23
Business Economics
1,549
4,907
677
2.29
Computational Economics
392
3,022
378
1.04
Decision Sciences
206
1,680
187
1.10
Development; Growth
4,935
10,789
891
5.54
Econometrics
4,170
12,485
1,588
2.63
Economic History
752
2,304
247
3.04
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,090
5,848
964
4.24
Experimental Economics
927
3,901
473
1.96
Finance
8,902
11,112
1,504
5.92
Health; Education; Welfare
3,052
7,029
818
3.73
Industrial Organization
2,757
6,237
966
2.85
Insurance
71
580
70
1.01
International Finance/Macro
1,878
5,627
735
2.56
International Trade
2,466
5,170
691
3.57
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,432
9,753
1,088
4.07
Law and Economics
355
2,024
345
1.03
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,042
10,244
1,468
4.80
Management, General
886
1,962
194
4.57
Management, Health Care
56
473
66
0.85
Management, Information Technology
170
624
78
2.18
Marketing
647
1,247
166
3.90
Microeconomic theory
317
512
54
5.87
Microeconomics
3,862
10,718
1,330
2.90
Operations Research
287
1,133
166
1.73
Organizational Behavior
199
1,026
118
1.69
Other
1,081
3,081
681
1.59
Political Economy
1,637
5,508
542
3.02
Public Economics
2,183
7,667
1,020
2.14
Real Estate
142
1,037
91
1.56
Statistics
318
2,246
341
0.93
Theory
889
2,999
346
2.57
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,020
3,927
452
2.26