Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 64,411
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,234
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 40,601
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,445
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,033
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 934
  • Number of ads currently posted: 67
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 721,385
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 97,972
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,248,962
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 276,404
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 19,161
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 4,640 (25.0%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,177 (27.9%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,196 (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
1,100
126
4.72
Any field
2,149
3,527
2,855
0.75
Behavioral Economics
1,584
5,857
702
2.26
Business Economics
1,473
4,686
643
2.29
Computational Economics
367
2,874
351
1.05
Decision Sciences
192
1,607
172
1.12
Development; Growth
4,708
10,129
823
5.72
Econometrics
3,947
11,895
1,492
2.65
Economic History
692
2,128
230
3.01
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
3,879
5,376
883
4.39
Experimental Economics
878
3,693
438
2.00
Finance
8,465
10,403
1,394
6.07
Health; Education; Welfare
2,936
6,564
760
3.86
Industrial Organization
2,627
5,917
909
2.89
Insurance
67
557
66
1.02
International Finance/Macro
1,834
5,407
684
2.68
International Trade
2,376
4,911
647
3.67
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,225
9,113
1,006
4.20
Law and Economics
342
1,951
329
1.04
Macroeconomics; Monetary
6,662
9,578
1,343
4.96
Management, General
834
1,822
186
4.48
Management, Health Care
52
450
61
0.85
Management, Information Technology
155
575
73
2.12
Marketing
614
1,184
158
3.89
Microeconomics
4,117
11,557
1,324
3.11
Operations Research
268
1,075
158
1.70
Organizational Behavior
185
969
109
1.70
Other
1,043
2,959
640
1.63
Political Economy
1,526
5,140
492
3.10
Public Economics
2,083
7,195
941
2.21
Real Estate
131
987
81
1.62
Statistics
287
2,071
325
0.88
Theory
995
3,295
344
2.89
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
979
3,675
419
2.34