linkedout

Job portal for Hiring Small scale workers/small bussiness and daily wage worker.

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Job search and hiring for small scale and daily wage workers for better employment opportunities and work equality

Inspiration

We are from India and a majority of the population of approximately 450 million works on a small scale. But most of the workers earn only $2 per day and conditions are even worse for women. Now In this pandemic, they are the most affected people if we look at their financial or economical conditions. So our aim is to build a solution to help them in the long run. Our project is based on the united nation's SGD goal 8

What it does

It is a platform for both employers who want to hire workers or employees on a small scale or daily wage workers. Right now to hire them, people have to go out and contact some contractors, etc and in this case, the wage is not equal or fair most of the time. With our portal, people can easily hire these workers in different categories like agriculture, construction, labor, etc.

For these workers, we build a portal to easily search and apply for jobs with minimum information and an easy to use UI. They can also apply via SMS and can get SMS updates. Job searches and applications are based on their skills.

How we built it

We built it using NodeJs/ExpressJs as backend and ReactJS/Redux as frontend with MongoDB as a database. We developed a REST API. We used Twilio API to enable SMS based applications and notifications. To host the app we used Google cloud compute engine and we are almost done with the google maps view to show jobs based on location.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into challenges like how to make the UI/UX easier for people with low education and how to notify and connect with people having poor or no internet. We had difficulties in the SMS based job application and notification. But we were able to make these things work.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of the design that we developed on which our system is working. It includes the easy to use job posting and notifications and application all working synchronously. Apart from technical aspects, we are proud that we are able to make this solution from the ground up to the full working and hosted app. Also, we are proud of the UI it is smooth.

What we learned

We learned how to use twilio and how to host backend and frontend using google cloud compute and also how to make better UI/UX

What's next for LinkedOut

We are planning to make SMS and phone-based application better and to provide guidance to these workers by collaborating with government

Update

we integrated the google map for job listings based on locations.

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