Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 63,215
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 9,537
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 40,129
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,336
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 1,986
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 989
  • Number of ads currently posted: 365
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 712,815
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 97,286
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,227,862
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 274,134
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 18,300
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 4,484 (25.2%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 4,939 (27.8%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 4,969 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,602 (9.0%)
    • > 24 hours: 1,781 (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
586
1,061
124
4.73
Any field
2,084
3,450
2,789
0.75
Behavioral Economics
1,540
5,707
671
2.30
Business Economics
1,439
4,584
624
2.31
Computational Economics
350
2,819
334
1.05
Decision Sciences
186
1,579
163
1.14
Development; Growth
4,595
9,866
794
5.79
Econometrics
3,871
11,621
1,448
2.67
Economic History
673
2,073
220
3.06
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
3,802
5,192
830
4.58
Experimental Economics
857
3,616
416
2.06
Finance
8,334
10,184
1,369
6.09
Health; Education; Welfare
2,893
6,432
741
3.90
Industrial Organization
2,609
5,860
886
2.94
Insurance
67
556
65
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,801
5,303
671
2.68
International Trade
2,314
4,770
623
3.71
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,163
8,939
960
4.34
Law and Economics
337
1,916
323
1.04
Macroeconomics; Monetary
6,547
9,340
1,302
5.03
Management, General
821
1,782
180
4.56
Management, Health Care
51
447
60
0.85
Management, Information Technology
149
562
72
2.07
Marketing
607
1,165
150
4.05
Microeconomics
4,049
11,363
1,281
3.16
Operations Research
266
1,057
153
1.74
Organizational Behavior
184
959
108
1.70
Other
1,025
2,910
618
1.66
Political Economy
1,483
5,002
466
3.18
Public Economics
2,039
7,028
908
2.25
Real Estate
127
972
78
1.63
Statistics
276
1,993
310
0.89
Theory
986
3,263
334
2.95
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
960
3,570
401
2.39