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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 67,675
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 9,183
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 42,454
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,700
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,078
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 845
  • Number of ads currently posted: 314
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 800,843
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 87,941
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,490,086
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 239,557
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,017
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,054 (24.8%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,724 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,703 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,864 (9.1%)
    • > 24 hours: 2,037 (10.0%)

All candidates and jobs posted since inception

Details by year
Field
Candidates' primary
Candidates' other
Job postings
Candidates (primary field) per posting
Accounting
652
1,205
134
4.87
Any field
2,280
3,694
3,009
0.76
Applied microeconomics
493
1,058
81
6.09
Behavioral Economics
1,675
6,175
749
2.24
Business Economics
1,537
4,883
675
2.28
Computational Economics
389
3,007
374
1.04
Decision Sciences
203
1,666
186
1.09
Development; Growth
4,894
10,697
881
5.56
Econometrics
4,151
12,418
1,577
2.63
Economic History
748
2,294
244
3.07
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,055
5,783
952
4.26
Experimental Economics
924
3,884
469
1.97
Finance
8,882
11,063
1,496
5.94
Health; Education; Welfare
3,040
6,992
810
3.75
Industrial Organization
2,751
6,227
962
2.86
Insurance
71
578
70
1.01
International Finance/Macro
1,873
5,603
731
2.56
International Trade
2,454
5,138
687
3.57
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,425
9,709
1,079
4.10
Law and Economics
352
2,017
344
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,013
10,173
1,454
4.82
Management, General
885
1,955
194
4.56
Management, Health Care
57
471
64
0.89
Management, Information Technology
170
621
78
2.18
Marketing
646
1,241
166
3.89
Microeconomic theory
294
460
45
6.53
Microeconomics
3,886
10,803
1,330
2.92
Operations Research
287
1,127
166
1.73
Organizational Behavior
198
1,022
117
1.69
Other
1,073
3,061
678
1.58
Political Economy
1,632
5,478
538
3.03
Public Economics
2,173
7,632
1,011
2.15
Real Estate
141
1,038
91
1.55
Statistics
317
2,230
341
0.93
Theory
897
3,025
346
2.59
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,018
3,909
447
2.28