Yahoo!’s strategic partnership with leading newspapers will have a profound impact on local market job boards.  While the Internet is the ultimate equalizer – HotJobs is now positioned to render  smaller, less pervasive job boards – irrelevant. 

Like ‘dirty-window’merchants fending off Wal-Mart’s dominance -  local and regional market job boards have opportunity to greatly enhance their job market visibility and potency with attractive pricing schedules, engaging content, advanced job search engine technology, etc.