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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,780
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 9,214
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 43,099
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,817
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,119
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 874
  • Number of ads currently posted: 79
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 814,734
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 93,237
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,523,039
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 250,355
  • 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
1,243
137
4.85
Any field
2,462
3,903
3,089
0.80
Applied microeconomics
778
1,681
146
5.33
Behavioral Economics
1,749
6,446
780
2.24
Business Economics
1,584
5,036
703
2.25
Computational Economics
419
3,126
387
1.08
Decision Sciences
214
1,730
192
1.11
Development; Growth
5,085
11,177
910
5.59
Econometrics
4,324
12,917
1,617
2.67
Economic History
771
2,388
253
3.05
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,192
6,065
996
4.21
Experimental Economics
943
4,017
487
1.94
Finance
9,027
11,346
1,543
5.85
Health; Education; Welfare
3,102
7,198
845
3.67
Industrial Organization
2,787
6,341
980
2.84
Insurance
72
596
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,904
5,752
756
2.52
International Trade
2,509
5,308
706
3.55
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,532
10,042
1,119
4.05
Law and Economics
360
2,071
355
1.01
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,227
10,596
1,502
4.81
Management, General
898
2,000
199
4.51
Management, Health Care
58
481
68
0.85
Management, Information Technology
175
639
83
2.11
Marketing
655
1,266
167
3.92
Microeconomic theory
372
662
66
5.64
Microeconomics
3,805
10,529
1,330
2.86
Operations Research
293
1,165
169
1.73
Organizational Behavior
203
1,053
122
1.66
Other
1,118
3,164
714
1.57
Political Economy
1,706
5,734
563
3.03
Public Economics
2,247
7,923
1,055
2.13
Real Estate
147
1,061
92
1.60
Statistics
341
2,367
352
0.97
Theory
871
2,948
346
2.52
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,047
4,068
468
2.24