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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,400
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,818
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 43,020
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,799
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,109
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 869
  • Number of ads currently posted: 99
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 813,947
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 92,920
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,521,895
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 250,015
  • 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
661
1,236
135
4.90
Any field
2,434
3,870
3,074
0.79
Applied microeconomics
735
1,563
129
5.70
Behavioral Economics
1,733
6,380
770
2.25
Business Economics
1,582
5,012
693
2.28
Computational Economics
417
3,104
382
1.09
Decision Sciences
212
1,719
189
1.12
Development; Growth
5,052
11,084
906
5.58
Econometrics
4,296
12,842
1,604
2.68
Economic History
765
2,363
250
3.06
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,165
6,015
986
4.22
Experimental Economics
939
3,997
482
1.95
Finance
9,000
11,296
1,530
5.88
Health; Education; Welfare
3,082
7,143
838
3.68
Industrial Organization
2,780
6,313
971
2.86
Insurance
72
593
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,894
5,717
749
2.53
International Trade
2,503
5,279
703
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,507
9,967
1,110
4.06
Law and Economics
358
2,059
351
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,189
10,516
1,488
4.83
Management, General
896
1,989
196
4.57
Management, Health Care
58
479
67
0.87
Management, Information Technology
174
634
78
2.23
Marketing
652
1,261
166
3.93
Microeconomic theory
352
620
56
6.29
Microeconomics
3,817
10,568
1,330
2.87
Operations Research
292
1,157
166
1.76
Organizational Behavior
203
1,043
121
1.68
Other
1,111
3,145
695
1.60
Political Economy
1,690
5,683
556
3.04
Public Economics
2,239
7,873
1,038
2.16
Real Estate
144
1,054
92
1.57
Statistics
341
2,348
349
0.98
Theory
876
2,963
346
2.53
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,040
4,033
463
2.25