Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 64,153
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,555
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 40,527
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,417
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,020
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 973
  • Number of ads currently posted: 125
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 720,753
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 98,025
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,247,976
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 276,396
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 19,154
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 4,639 (25.0%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,174 (27.9%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,193 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,676 (9.0%)
    • > 24 hours: 1,890 (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
593
1,089
126
4.71
Any field
2,127
3,499
2,840
0.75
Behavioral Economics
1,573
5,824
693
2.27
Business Economics
1,470
4,663
639
2.30
Computational Economics
362
2,857
349
1.04
Decision Sciences
191
1,599
169
1.13
Development; Growth
4,688
10,084
818
5.73
Econometrics
3,932
11,843
1,483
2.65
Economic History
687
2,116
224
3.07
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
3,870
5,343
869
4.45
Experimental Economics
873
3,679
433
2.02
Finance
8,419
10,340
1,389
6.06
Health; Education; Welfare
2,921
6,528
754
3.87
Industrial Organization
2,621
5,903
904
2.90
Insurance
67
557
66
1.02
International Finance/Macro
1,833
5,386
681
2.69
International Trade
2,367
4,890
639
3.70
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,210
9,077
996
4.23
Law and Economics
342
1,942
326
1.05
Macroeconomics; Monetary
6,640
9,530
1,333
4.98
Management, General
832
1,818
184
4.52
Management, Health Care
52
450
60
0.87
Management, Information Technology
155
571
73
2.12
Marketing
615
1,183
157
3.92
Microeconomics
4,099
11,506
1,316
3.11
Operations Research
268
1,070
157
1.71
Organizational Behavior
185
968
109
1.70
Other
1,042
2,950
635
1.64
Political Economy
1,519
5,117
488
3.11
Public Economics
2,076
7,170
932
2.23
Real Estate
130
984
81
1.60
Statistics
284
2,058
322
0.88
Theory
990
3,286
344
2.88
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
976
3,655
413
2.36