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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,672
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 9,098
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 43,082
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,811
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,117
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 877
  • Number of ads currently posted: 67
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 814,545
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 93,201
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,522,804
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 250,298
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,589
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,151 (24.6%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,880 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,871 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,926 (9.2%)
    • > 24 hours: 2,110 (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
664
1,242
136
4.88
Any field
2,453
3,893
3,085
0.80
Applied microeconomics
761
1,638
142
5.36
Behavioral Economics
1,746
6,430
780
2.24
Business Economics
1,582
5,027
700
2.26
Computational Economics
419
3,124
387
1.08
Decision Sciences
213
1,726
191
1.12
Development; Growth
5,072
11,148
909
5.58
Econometrics
4,317
12,901
1,612
2.68
Economic History
768
2,380
253
3.04
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,185
6,047
992
4.22
Experimental Economics
943
4,014
487
1.94
Finance
9,017
11,329
1,540
5.86
Health; Education; Welfare
3,097
7,180
843
3.67
Industrial Organization
2,783
6,331
978
2.85
Insurance
72
594
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,903
5,744
754
2.52
International Trade
2,508
5,300
705
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,525
10,017
1,115
4.06
Law and Economics
360
2,069
353
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,219
10,579
1,499
4.82
Management, General
898
1,997
198
4.54
Management, Health Care
58
480
68
0.85
Management, Information Technology
175
638
82
2.13
Marketing
654
1,265
166
3.94
Microeconomic theory
367
648
63
5.83
Microeconomics
3,808
10,541
1,330
2.86
Operations Research
293
1,163
169
1.73
Organizational Behavior
203
1,051
122
1.66
Other
1,115
3,158
706
1.58
Political Economy
1,705
5,724
561
3.04
Public Economics
2,245
7,906
1,051
2.14
Real Estate
146
1,058
92
1.59
Statistics
342
2,361
352
0.97
Theory
873
2,950
346
2.52
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,044
4,054
466
2.24