first decisions (unless you are not qualified in which case you typically get an immediate rejection) don't come for 24 hours (actually ore like 27 1/2 because the first jobs notices seem to come in about 2:47 am) - after that I am not sure of the pattern, if there is one (which, being a computer program, I assume there is) - but it is not every 3 hours like recruiting I don't think. Last season I applied for a job at 10 AM on the final day of jobs and got hired at the 11 pm "cycle". I don't think it was a case of weighing most qualified candidate or anything, because I was dropping from a low level BCS team to div 3...