Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 64,809
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,378
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 40,676
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,456
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,047
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 927
  • Number of ads currently posted: 109
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 722,171
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 98,129
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,249,815
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 276,298
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 19,160
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 4,640 (25.0%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,177 (27.9%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,195 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,676 (9.0%)
    • > 24 hours: 1,890 (10.2%)

All candidates and jobs posted since inception

Details by year
Field
Candidates' primary
Candidates' other
Job postings
Candidates (primary field) per posting
Accounting
595
1,102
127
4.69
Any field
2,183
3,565
2,880
0.76
Behavioral Economics
1,601
5,902
706
2.27
Business Economics
1,486
4,716
650
2.29
Computational Economics
370
2,889
354
1.05
Decision Sciences
194
1,617
174
1.11
Development; Growth
4,741
10,201
832
5.70
Econometrics
3,980
11,972
1,510
2.64
Economic History
703
2,152
232
3.03
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
3,899
5,416
896
4.35
Experimental Economics
884
3,726
442
2.00
Finance
8,491
10,452
1,411
6.02
Health; Education; Welfare
2,956
6,624
772
3.83
Industrial Organization
2,644
5,954
922
2.87
Insurance
67
561
68
0.99
International Finance/Macro
1,842
5,435
691
2.67
International Trade
2,385
4,935
652
3.66
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,255
9,192
1,016
4.19
Law and Economics
342
1,957
334
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
6,690
9,637
1,363
4.91
Management, General
837
1,831
186
4.50
Management, Health Care
53
451
61
0.87
Management, Information Technology
156
579
73
2.14
Marketing
614
1,190
159
3.86
Microeconomics
4,140
11,628
1,337
3.10
Operations Research
268
1,081
158
1.70
Organizational Behavior
185
973
110
1.68
Other
1,044
2,969
650
1.61
Political Economy
1,542
5,195
497
3.10
Public Economics
2,095
7,243
955
2.19
Real Estate
133
995
83
1.60
Statistics
292
2,096
328
0.89
Theory
1,012
3,322
345
2.93
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
987
3,709
424
2.33