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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,596
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 9,043
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 43,077
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,808
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,115
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 873
  • Number of ads currently posted: 64
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 814,416
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 93,181
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,522,663
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 250,247
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,586
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,150 (24.6%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,880 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,871 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,925 (9.2%)
    • > 24 hours: 2,109 (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
2,447
3,886
3,081
0.79
Applied microeconomics
752
1,616
137
5.49
Behavioral Economics
1,744
6,417
777
2.24
Business Economics
1,582
5,023
697
2.27
Computational Economics
418
3,120
385
1.09
Decision Sciences
214
1,725
191
1.12
Development; Growth
5,065
11,131
908
5.58
Econometrics
4,312
12,883
1,608
2.68
Economic History
767
2,372
253
3.03
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,176
6,034
988
4.23
Experimental Economics
942
4,012
484
1.95
Finance
9,012
11,321
1,534
5.87
Health; Education; Welfare
3,092
7,169
840
3.68
Industrial Organization
2,783
6,326
975
2.85
Insurance
72
594
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,902
5,740
751
2.53
International Trade
2,506
5,292
704
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,520
9,999
1,114
4.06
Law and Economics
360
2,067
351
1.03
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,214
10,562
1,495
4.83
Management, General
897
1,994
197
4.55
Management, Health Care
58
480
68
0.85
Management, Information Technology
175
637
80
2.19
Marketing
653
1,264
166
3.93
Microeconomic theory
363
641
61
5.95
Microeconomics
3,810
10,547
1,330
2.86
Operations Research
293
1,162
169
1.73
Organizational Behavior
203
1,049
122
1.66
Other
1,115
3,153
701
1.59
Political Economy
1,701
5,710
559
3.04
Public Economics
2,243
7,895
1,046
2.14
Real Estate
146
1,057
92
1.59
Statistics
342
2,358
350
0.98
Theory
873
2,952
346
2.52
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,041
4,047
466
2.23