Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 59,716
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 7,606
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 38,378
  • Total number of recruiters: 5,835
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 1,903
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 1,040
  • Number of ads currently posted: 119
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 623,217
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 92,135
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 1,951,744
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 260,599
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 15,839
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 3,998 (26.0%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 4,199 (27.3%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 4,138 (27.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,385 (9.0%)
    • > 24 hours: 1,633 (10.6%)

All candidates and jobs posted since inception

Details by year
Field
Candidates' primary
Candidates' other
Job postings
Candidates (primary field) per posting
Accounting
547
975
106
5.16
Any field
1,978
3,320
2,601
0.76
Behavioral Economics
1,453
5,355
625
2.32
Business Economics
1,373
4,360
583
2.36
Computational Economics
309
2,636
307
1.01
Decision Sciences
170
1,492
145
1.17
Development; Growth
4,308
9,235
741
5.81
Econometrics
3,637
10,976
1,342
2.71
Economic History
623
1,929
203
3.07
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
3,591
4,763
752
4.78
Experimental Economics
796
3,387
384
2.07
Finance
7,841
9,416
1,260
6.22
Health; Education; Welfare
2,719
5,965
672
4.05
Industrial Organization
2,502
5,577
833
3.00
Insurance
61
529
57
1.07
International Finance/Macro
1,748
5,074
618
2.83
International Trade
2,222
4,563
575
3.86
Labor; Demographic Economics
3,865
8,193
869
4.45
Law and Economics
314
1,843
308
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
6,205
8,710
1,190
5.21
Management, General
780
1,678
161
4.84
Management, Health Care
47
418
56
0.84
Management, Information Technology
122
504
62
1.97
Marketing
581
1,108
140
4.15
Microeconomics
3,900
10,855
1,189
3.28
Operations Research
247
1,006
134
1.84
Organizational Behavior
178
915
102
1.75
Other
977
2,778
568
1.72
Political Economy
1,356
4,596
415
3.27
Public Economics
1,932
6,636
834
2.32
Real Estate
117
912
68
1.72
Statistics
244
1,825
277
0.88
Theory
926
3,128
292
3.17
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
899
3,308
370
2.43