Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 64,116
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,556
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 40,505
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,455
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,021
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 969
  • Number of ads currently posted: 123
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 720,603
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 97,955
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,247,652
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 276,309
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 19,155
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 4,639 (25.0%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,174 (27.9%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,194 (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
593
1,087
125
4.74
Any field
2,126
3,498
2,837
0.75
Behavioral Economics
1,573
5,817
693
2.27
Business Economics
1,468
4,655
639
2.30
Computational Economics
361
2,853
349
1.03
Decision Sciences
191
1,596
168
1.14
Development; Growth
4,686
10,074
817
5.74
Econometrics
3,930
11,836
1,482
2.65
Economic History
687
2,115
224
3.07
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
3,869
5,339
866
4.47
Experimental Economics
872
3,676
432
2.02
Finance
8,411
10,327
1,388
6.06
Health; Education; Welfare
2,920
6,524
754
3.87
Industrial Organization
2,621
5,902
903
2.90
Insurance
67
556
66
1.02
International Finance/Macro
1,833
5,380
681
2.69
International Trade
2,367
4,888
639
3.70
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,210
9,075
995
4.23
Law and Economics
341
1,941
326
1.05
Macroeconomics; Monetary
6,633
9,518
1,333
4.98
Management, General
832
1,816
184
4.52
Management, Health Care
52
450
60
0.87
Management, Information Technology
155
570
73
2.12
Marketing
615
1,183
157
3.92
Microeconomics
4,092
11,497
1,315
3.11
Operations Research
268
1,070
157
1.71
Organizational Behavior
185
968
109
1.70
Other
1,041
2,949
635
1.64
Political Economy
1,517
5,114
487
3.11
Public Economics
2,076
7,164
931
2.23
Real Estate
130
984
81
1.60
Statistics
283
2,055
321
0.88
Theory
991
3,285
344
2.88
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
976
3,654
413
2.36