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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 65,859
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,896
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 40,969
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,408
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,050
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 905
  • Number of ads currently posted: 315
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 729,507
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 98,766
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,260,802
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 276,194
  • 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
607
1,127
131
4.63
Any field
2,246
3,648
2,951
0.76
Applied microeconomics
182
364
42
4.33
Behavioral Economics
1,629
6,008
725
2.25
Business Economics
1,517
4,789
659
2.30
Computational Economics
376
2,938
362
1.04
Decision Sciences
197
1,638
181
1.09
Development; Growth
4,802
10,358
852
5.64
Econometrics
4,048
12,138
1,544
2.62
Economic History
724
2,207
238
3.04
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
3,950
5,540
923
4.28
Experimental Economics
901
3,787
455
1.98
Finance
8,615
10,652
1,456
5.92
Health; Education; Welfare
2,990
6,749
792
3.78
Industrial Organization
2,686
6,062
943
2.85
Insurance
67
567
69
0.97
International Finance/Macro
1,854
5,494
712
2.60
International Trade
2,408
5,001
672
3.58
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,318
9,395
1,050
4.11
Law and Economics
345
1,981
340
1.01
Macroeconomics; Monetary
6,811
9,828
1,417
4.81
Management, General
853
1,870
191
4.47
Management, Health Care
54
458
61
0.89
Management, Information Technology
163
594
76
2.14
Marketing
622
1,208
160
3.89
Microeconomic theory
125
199
25
5.00
Microeconomics
4,034
11,270
1,330
3.03
Operations Research
276
1,103
161
1.71
Organizational Behavior
187
981
113
1.65
Other
1,051
2,999
660
1.59
Political Economy
1,567
5,294
519
3.02
Public Economics
2,127
7,380
989
2.15
Real Estate
135
1,004
87
1.55
Statistics
303
2,158
334
0.91
Theory
953
3,191
346
2.75
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
993
3,776
433
2.29