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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,627
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 9,072
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 43,078
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,810
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,116
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 867
  • Number of ads currently posted: 60
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 814,463
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 93,186
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,522,713
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 250,278
  • 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
1,241
135
4.92
Any field
2,450
3,889
3,082
0.79
Applied microeconomics
756
1,627
138
5.48
Behavioral Economics
1,746
6,424
777
2.25
Business Economics
1,582
5,025
698
2.27
Computational Economics
418
3,121
385
1.09
Decision Sciences
213
1,727
191
1.12
Development; Growth
5,068
11,136
908
5.58
Econometrics
4,315
12,893
1,608
2.68
Economic History
767
2,376
253
3.03
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,180
6,040
991
4.22
Experimental Economics
943
4,013
484
1.95
Finance
9,014
11,325
1,536
5.87
Health; Education; Welfare
3,093
7,171
840
3.68
Industrial Organization
2,783
6,327
975
2.85
Insurance
72
594
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,902
5,741
752
2.53
International Trade
2,507
5,295
705
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,520
10,004
1,114
4.06
Law and Economics
360
2,067
351
1.03
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,215
10,569
1,497
4.82
Management, General
898
1,995
197
4.56
Management, Health Care
58
480
68
0.85
Management, Information Technology
175
638
80
2.19
Marketing
653
1,264
166
3.93
Microeconomic theory
364
644
61
5.97
Microeconomics
3,809
10,544
1,330
2.86
Operations Research
293
1,162
169
1.73
Organizational Behavior
203
1,050
122
1.66
Other
1,115
3,158
702
1.59
Political Economy
1,703
5,717
559
3.05
Public Economics
2,245
7,901
1,046
2.15
Real Estate
146
1,057
92
1.59
Statistics
342
2,360
350
0.98
Theory
873
2,951
346
2.52
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,043
4,050
466
2.24