Make it incredibly easy to get hold of you. There is no excuse for not having an answering machine, and an e-mail address is especially helpful. Remember, in the weeks before the conference, the chair of a search committee may have a list of 10 top candidates in front of him or her. All of the candidates would probably do a fine job, but the chair might have only five interview time slots. Do not call complaining that the department has been slow in acknowledging your application.
Large departments have the clerical help that smaller departments can only dream about.
The Conference Interview Interviewing under the trying circumstances of a national conference will probably be new to you. Unfortunately, it may well be just as new to those on the other side of the table. Indeed, considering how infrequently departments, especially smaller ones, make new full-time hires, it may have been a generation since the department last hired anyone. The timing of the interview poses an interesting dilemma for a candidate. If you're one of the department's first interviews, you may get someone less able to discern your strengths.