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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,297
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,736
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 43,000
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,799
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,107
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 873
  • Number of ads currently posted: 109
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 813,730
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 92,936
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,521,541
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 249,931
  • 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
1,234
135
4.90
Any field
2,422
3,856
3,070
0.79
Applied microeconomics
722
1,535
126
5.73
Behavioral Economics
1,729
6,370
769
2.25
Business Economics
1,582
5,006
691
2.29
Computational Economics
416
3,100
382
1.09
Decision Sciences
211
1,716
189
1.12
Development; Growth
5,043
11,061
906
5.57
Econometrics
4,287
12,817
1,602
2.68
Economic History
764
2,357
250
3.06
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,159
6,005
982
4.24
Experimental Economics
938
3,992
482
1.95
Finance
8,992
11,282
1,528
5.88
Health; Education; Welfare
3,080
7,135
837
3.68
Industrial Organization
2,779
6,306
971
2.86
Insurance
72
592
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,892
5,707
749
2.53
International Trade
2,503
5,269
703
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,502
9,953
1,109
4.06
Law and Economics
357
2,059
351
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,177
10,490
1,486
4.83
Management, General
896
1,990
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
350
613
56
6.25
Microeconomics
3,819
10,577
1,330
2.87
Operations Research
291
1,154
166
1.75
Organizational Behavior
203
1,043
121
1.68
Other
1,105
3,138
692
1.60
Political Economy
1,690
5,672
555
3.05
Public Economics
2,238
7,862
1,037
2.16
Real Estate
143
1,052
92
1.55
Statistics
338
2,338
349
0.97
Theory
877
2,968
346
2.53
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,036
4,023
463
2.24