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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 67,317
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 9,360
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 42,059
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,520
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,066
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 859
  • Number of ads currently posted: 402
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 786,474
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 92,954
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,442,064
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 258,281
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 19,174
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 4,642 (25.0%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,179 (27.9%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,202 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,676 (9.0%)
    • > 24 hours: 1,893 (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
637
1,183
134
4.75
Any field
2,277
3,691
2,991
0.76
Applied microeconomics
446
948
69
6.46
Behavioral Economics
1,660
6,133
743
2.23
Business Economics
1,532
4,860
672
2.28
Computational Economics
384
2,992
369
1.04
Decision Sciences
199
1,656
185
1.08
Development; Growth
4,875
10,626
876
5.57
Econometrics
4,131
12,359
1,569
2.63
Economic History
741
2,273
243
3.05
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,033
5,728
944
4.27
Experimental Economics
922
3,862
464
1.99
Finance
8,818
10,964
1,487
5.93
Health; Education; Welfare
3,028
6,955
805
3.76
Industrial Organization
2,744
6,201
960
2.86
Insurance
70
575
69
1.01
International Finance/Macro
1,866
5,577
727
2.57
International Trade
2,448
5,112
683
3.58
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,416
9,672
1,071
4.12
Law and Economics
348
2,010
344
1.01
Macroeconomics; Monetary
6,992
10,120
1,448
4.83
Management, General
873
1,928
194
4.50
Management, Health Care
57
469
64
0.89
Management, Information Technology
170
618
77
2.21
Marketing
638
1,228
166
3.84
Microeconomic theory
260
413
44
5.91
Microeconomics
3,916
10,891
1,330
2.94
Operations Research
283
1,119
166
1.70
Organizational Behavior
193
1,005
117
1.65
Other
1,064
3,043
673
1.58
Political Economy
1,615
5,438
533
3.03
Public Economics
2,165
7,600
1,009
2.15
Real Estate
139
1,032
91
1.53
Statistics
313
2,213
338
0.93
Theory
910
3,064
346
2.63
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,014
3,886
444
2.28