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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,149
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,625
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 42,970
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,798
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,106
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 873
  • Number of ads currently posted: 142
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 813,353
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 92,926
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,520,920
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 249,937
  • 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
1,232
135
4.90
Any field
2,401
3,832
3,065
0.78
Applied microeconomics
706
1,499
123
5.74
Behavioral Economics
1,727
6,357
767
2.25
Business Economics
1,579
4,999
689
2.29
Computational Economics
414
3,094
382
1.08
Decision Sciences
210
1,713
189
1.11
Development; Growth
5,035
11,038
904
5.57
Econometrics
4,273
12,777
1,600
2.67
Economic History
764
2,353
249
3.07
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,150
5,991
982
4.23
Experimental Economics
938
3,983
482
1.95
Finance
8,978
11,261
1,525
5.89
Health; Education; Welfare
3,079
7,123
836
3.68
Industrial Organization
2,776
6,293
972
2.86
Insurance
72
591
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,890
5,694
749
2.52
International Trade
2,495
5,260
703
3.55
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,489
9,928
1,107
4.06
Law and Economics
357
2,055
351
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,161
10,457
1,485
4.82
Management, General
894
1,986
196
4.56
Management, Health Care
58
479
67
0.87
Management, Information Technology
174
634
78
2.23
Marketing
652
1,261
166
3.93
Microeconomic theory
348
608
56
6.21
Microeconomics
3,821
10,587
1,330
2.87
Operations Research
291
1,153
166
1.75
Organizational Behavior
203
1,042
121
1.68
Other
1,102
3,132
693
1.59
Political Economy
1,685
5,656
555
3.04
Public Economics
2,236
7,846
1,037
2.16
Real Estate
142
1,050
92
1.54
Statistics
335
2,330
347
0.97
Theory
877
2,968
346
2.53
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,037
4,015
463
2.24