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Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 68,560
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,595
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 42,819
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,788
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,096
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 871
  • Number of ads currently posted: 163
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 811,432
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 92,324
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,517,516
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 249,227
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 21,548
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 5,147 (24.6%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,872 (28.1%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,862 (28.1%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,916 (9.2%)
    • > 24 hours: 2,100 (10.0%)

All candidates and jobs posted since inception

Details by year
Field
Candidates' primary
Candidates' other
Job postings
Candidates (primary field) per posting
Accounting
657
1,217
135
4.87
Any field
2,346
3,774
3,054
0.77
Applied microeconomics
629
1,336
113
5.57
Behavioral Economics
1,705
6,288
763
2.23
Business Economics
1,564
4,950
687
2.28
Computational Economics
401
3,049
382
1.05
Decision Sciences
207
1,694
187
1.11
Development; Growth
4,985
10,905
897
5.56
Econometrics
4,216
12,611
1,597
2.64
Economic History
757
2,326
247
3.06
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
4,122
5,923
974
4.23
Experimental Economics
932
3,940
477
1.95
Finance
8,939
11,190
1,517
5.89
Health; Education; Welfare
3,063
7,075
828
3.70
Industrial Organization
2,767
6,262
967
2.86
Insurance
72
586
70
1.03
International Finance/Macro
1,886
5,661
742
2.54
International Trade
2,481
5,216
698
3.55
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,456
9,837
1,101
4.05
Law and Economics
358
2,039
350
1.02
Macroeconomics; Monetary
7,117
10,365
1,477
4.82
Management, General
888
1,972
196
4.53
Management, Health Care
56
474
66
0.85
Management, Information Technology
170
626
78
2.18
Marketing
650
1,255
166
3.92
Microeconomic theory
334
564
54
6.19
Microeconomics
3,838
10,643
1,330
2.89
Operations Research
289
1,143
166
1.74
Organizational Behavior
200
1,031
120
1.67
Other
1,089
3,101
689
1.58
Political Economy
1,666
5,583
548
3.04
Public Economics
2,204
7,749
1,033
2.13
Real Estate
142
1,044
91
1.56
Statistics
324
2,273
345
0.94
Theory
881
2,984
346
2.55
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
1,030
3,972
461
2.23