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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 69,584
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 9,029
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 43,075
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,808
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,115
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 874
  • Number of ads currently posted: 64
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 814,396
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 93,174
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,522,611
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 250,224
  • 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
664
1,241
135
4.92
Any field
2,447
3,886
3,081
0.79
Applied microeconomics
750
1,611
137
5.47
Behavioral Economics
1,742
6,414
777
2.24
Business Economics
1,583
5,022
697
2.27
Computational Economics
418
3,118
384
1.09
Decision Sciences
214
1,724
191
1.12
Development; Growth
5,065
11,130
908
5.58
Econometrics
4,311
12,881
1,608
2.68
Economic History
767
2,370
253
3.03
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,175
6,031
988
4.23
Experimental Economics
942
4,011
484
1.95
Finance
9,009
11,317
1,533
5.88
Health; Education; Welfare
3,091
7,167
840
3.68
Industrial Organization
2,783
6,324
975
2.85
Insurance
72
594
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,901
5,739
751
2.53
International Trade
2,506
5,291
704
3.56
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,520
9,997
1,114
4.06
Law and Economics
359
2,066
351
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,214
10,560
1,495
4.83
Management, General
897
1,993
197
4.55
Management, Health Care
58
479
68
0.85
Management, Information Technology
175
637
80
2.19
Marketing
653
1,264
166
3.93
Microeconomic theory
363
640
61
5.95
Microeconomics
3,810
10,548
1,330
2.86
Operations Research
293
1,162
169
1.73
Organizational Behavior
203
1,047
122
1.66
Other
1,115
3,153
701
1.59
Political Economy
1,701
5,707
559
3.04
Public Economics
2,242
7,894
1,046
2.14
Real Estate
146
1,057
92
1.59
Statistics
342
2,357
350
0.98
Theory
873
2,952
346
2.52
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,041
4,045
466
2.23