Statistics

  • Total number of candidates: 64,004
  • Total number of candidates actively seeking a position and logged in within last 12 months: 8,703
  • Total number of approved recommenders: 40,476
  • Total number of recruiters: 6,451
  • Total number of recruiting organizations: 2,019
  • Total number of ads posted in the past 12 months: 981
  • Number of ads currently posted: 167
  • Number of applications processed since inception: 720,108
  • Number of applications processed in the last 12 months: 98,023
  • Number of reference letters transmitted since inception: 2,246,726
  • Number of reference letters transmitted in the last 12 months: 276,445
  • Number of interviews scheduled (since component was added in November 2018): 19,149
  • Response times to interview invitations:
    • < 10 mins: 4,639 (25.0%)
    • 10 mins – 1 hour: 5,173 (27.9%)
    • 1 – 8 hours: 5,192 (28.0%)
    • 8 – 24 hours: 1,673 (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
1,087
125
4.74
Any field
2,117
3,486
2,835
0.75
Behavioral Economics
1,570
5,807
693
2.27
Business Economics
1,460
4,643
638
2.29
Computational Economics
359
2,849
347
1.03
Decision Sciences
190
1,594
168
1.13
Development; Growth
4,673
10,049
815
5.73
Econometrics
3,924
11,815
1,479
2.65
Economic History
686
2,111
224
3.06
Environmental; Ag. Econ.
3,863
5,325
862
4.48
Experimental Economics
870
3,668
430
2.02
Finance
8,403
10,309
1,385
6.07
Health; Education; Welfare
2,916
6,516
753
3.87
Industrial Organization
2,620
5,897
903
2.90
Insurance
67
556
66
1.02
International Finance/Macro
1,830
5,375
679
2.70
International Trade
2,358
4,871
637
3.70
Labor; Demographic Economics
4,198
9,057
992
4.23
Law and Economics
340
1,937
326
1.04
Macroeconomics; Monetary
6,624
9,499
1,329
4.98
Management, General
830
1,811
184
4.51
Management, Health Care
52
450
60
0.87
Management, Information Technology
155
569
73
2.12
Marketing
615
1,181
157
3.92
Microeconomics
4,088
11,486
1,313
3.11
Operations Research
268
1,070
156
1.72
Organizational Behavior
185
967
109
1.70
Other
1,041
2,945
635
1.64
Political Economy
1,514
5,105
484
3.13
Public Economics
2,077
7,153
927
2.24
Real Estate
130
984
81
1.60
Statistics
282
2,047
319
0.88
Theory
991
3,283
344
2.88
Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
971
3,637
412
2.36