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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 68,290
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,585
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 42,746
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,794
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,098
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 869
  • Number of ads currently posted: 185
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 810,439
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 91,961
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,515,642
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 248,964
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,548
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,147 (24.6%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,872 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,862 (28.1%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,916 (9.2%)
    • > 24 hours: 2,100 (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
657
1,215
135
4.87
Any field
2,313
3,738
3,045
0.76
Applied microeconomics
588
1,262
108
5.44
Behavioral Economics
1,697
6,247
761
2.23
Business Economics
1,557
4,931
683
2.28
Computational Economics
397
3,035
381
1.04
Decision Sciences
207
1,689
187
1.11
Development; Growth
4,957
10,855
897
5.53
Econometrics
4,190
12,548
1,594
2.63
Economic History
756
2,316
247
3.06
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,112
5,892
972
4.23
Experimental Economics
930
3,928
477
1.95
Finance
8,919
11,155
1,515
5.89
Health; Education; Welfare
3,057
7,050
824
3.71
Industrial Organization
2,761
6,250
967
2.86
Insurance
71
583
70
1.01
International Finance/Macro
1,883
5,643
742
2.54
International Trade
2,475
5,200
694
3.57
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,446
9,798
1,098
4.05
Law and Economics
356
2,030
348
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,093
10,320
1,475
4.81
Management, General
887
1,968
196
4.53
Management, Health Care
56
474
66
0.85
Management, Information Technology
170
626
78
2.18
Marketing
649
1,252
166
3.91
Microeconomic theory
327
543
54
6.06
Microeconomics
3,845
10,666
1,330
2.89
Operations Research
288
1,139
166
1.73
Organizational Behavior
200
1,029
119
1.68
Other
1,086
3,096
687
1.58
Political Economy
1,648
5,549
548
3.01
Public Economics
2,201
7,716
1,031
2.13
Real Estate
142
1,042
91
1.56
Statistics
322
2,258
345
0.93
Theory
884
2,988
346
2.55
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,024
3,948
460
2.23