>* If you advertise a job respond to applicants quickly - as in within minutes of the application. A single day of delay in response causes 28% of candidates to become unresponsive to recruiters (this is from our company's research). It drops to 51% become unresponsive 48 hours later.

Related: apply to jobs during [earlyish] business hours whenever possible - you're a lot more likely to hear back in a timely manner

Don't apply at 9pm on Friday night if you can avoid it