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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,216
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,682
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 42,980
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,799
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,107
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 874
  • Number of ads currently posted: 134
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 813,492
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 92,924
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,521,125
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 249,961
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,573
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,149 (24.6%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,877 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,866 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,922 (9.2%)
    • > 24 hours: 2,108 (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
661
1,233
135
4.90
Any field
2,415
3,846
3,067
0.79
Applied microeconomics
712
1,514
126
5.65
Behavioral Economics
1,729
6,365
768
2.25
Business Economics
1,579
5,000
690
2.29
Computational Economics
416
3,097
382
1.09
Decision Sciences
211
1,714
189
1.12
Development; Growth
5,037
11,046
906
5.56
Econometrics
4,274
12,790
1,600
2.67
Economic History
764
2,354
250
3.06
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,157
6,000
982
4.23
Experimental Economics
938
3,987
482
1.95
Finance
8,983
11,269
1,527
5.88
Health; Education; Welfare
3,079
7,126
837
3.68
Industrial Organization
2,778
6,300
972
2.86
Insurance
72
591
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,891
5,699
749
2.52
International Trade
2,500
5,264
703
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,494
9,942
1,109
4.05
Law and Economics
357
2,056
351
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,168
10,467
1,486
4.82
Management, General
895
1,988
196
4.57
Management, Health Care
58
479
67
0.87
Management, Information Technology
174
634
78
2.23
Marketing
652
1,262
166
3.93
Microeconomic theory
348
610
56
6.21
Microeconomics
3,821
10,585
1,330
2.87
Operations Research
291
1,153
166
1.75
Organizational Behavior
203
1,043
121
1.68
Other
1,102
3,134
693
1.59
Political Economy
1,687
5,662
555
3.04
Public Economics
2,238
7,852
1,037
2.16
Real Estate
142
1,051
92
1.54
Statistics
338
2,335
347
0.97
Theory
877
2,968
346
2.53
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,036
4,019
463
2.24