I am on my third search at a good LAC after doing it a few times at a research place. The process is really different.
1. The role of some aspects of the market is different. The job market talk is the main tool for judging teaching ability. Evaluations, unless they are awful, are considered unreliable and too easy to manipulate. If you can't tailor your talk for a general audience, you will not get an offer. Because of our size, a few people in a related field and the letters will play a bigger role in judging research potential.
2. The asshole test is important. A R1 will put up with an asshole if he is good enough at research. A LAC will not. Be humble and nice to everyone. We even ask the car service driver about you. Last year, a girl from the sacred zipcode had a flyout. She turned everyone off by seeming arrogant even though her paper was very good and we probably could have got her.
3. You will be asked what you can teach. The correct answer is everything kind of close to what you do. If you are applied labor, then you can teach public, econometrics, and maybe another field or two. You look stupid if you say that you can teach anything. And if all you can teach is one field, then we can't use you.
4. Unlike a lot of R1s, LACs are generally fine with eclectic research agendas. It actually signals that you might coauthor.
5. I am surprised and disappointed how important the diversity thing is. When you meet with the diversity person fake being a good liberal. When you get here, you will be free to join in the hatred for her that exists among the serious faculty.
6. With only 10-15 faculty, we rely on students to fill the room for a talk. When they ask a question, even a clearly stupid one, be gentle. Don't be dismissive.
7. A lot of people don't understand what being at a LAC is really like. In terms of research expectations and teaching loads, the differences are not as fundamental as you might think. Life here is lot like a crappy Ph.D. program except that the students don't suck. In reality, one of the biggest differences is that you have a lot more interaction with people in other fields. So be cautious about knocking other fields. If it is cultural anthropology or area studies, you are probably fine. But a snarky comment about psych, for example, could offend someone with close friends in that department.
8. Most faculty here chose to be at LAC over a mediocre research place. That correlates with a different kind of personality. The best way I can think of putting it is to try not to come off as a EJMR poster (bro-alpha stuff is a turnoff).