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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 67,764
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,998
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 42,504
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,741
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,081
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 869
  • Number of ads currently posted: 327
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 803,961
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 89,290
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,498,731
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 242,848
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,483
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,141 (24.7%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,855 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,836 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,912 (9.2%)
    • > 24 hours: 2,091 (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
653
1,208
135
4.84
Any field
2,283
3,699
3,016
0.76
Applied microeconomics
511
1,099
89
5.74
Behavioral Economics
1,678
6,186
752
2.23
Business Economics
1,541
4,890
676
2.28
Computational Economics
390
3,014
377
1.03
Decision Sciences
204
1,670
186
1.10
Development; Growth
4,904
10,721
889
5.52
Econometrics
4,158
12,437
1,582
2.63
Economic History
749
2,295
247
3.03
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,066
5,804
962
4.23
Experimental Economics
924
3,889
471
1.96
Finance
8,887
11,077
1,503
5.91
Health; Education; Welfare
3,046
7,006
814
3.74
Industrial Organization
2,755
6,232
963
2.86
Insurance
71
579
70
1.01
International Finance/Macro
1,873
5,611
733
2.56
International Trade
2,457
5,147
690
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,428
9,729
1,083
4.09
Law and Economics
352
2,018
344
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,018
10,195
1,463
4.80
Management, General
885
1,957
194
4.56
Management, Health Care
57
472
64
0.89
Management, Information Technology
170
621
78
2.18
Marketing
647
1,244
166
3.90
Microeconomic theory
302
476
50
6.04
Microeconomics
3,878
10,770
1,330
2.92
Operations Research
287
1,129
166
1.73
Organizational Behavior
198
1,024
118
1.68
Other
1,074
3,066
679
1.58
Political Economy
1,634
5,485
540
3.03
Public Economics
2,175
7,642
1,014
2.14
Real Estate
142
1,038
91
1.56
Statistics
318
2,236
341
0.93
Theory
892
3,011
346
2.58
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,018
3,915
450
2.26