Long before LinkedIn went public or before a plethora of on-demand startups began washing the Bay Area and other U.S. cities with services at the click of a button, there was this startup from an MIT grad called Assured Labor.
David Reich started the company in 2008 to make informal labor markets in Latin America faster and more transparent for low-skilled workers. It was a social enterprise meant to connect workers, who often had little more than a feature phone, to evaluate or sign up for work opportunities by text message.
Today, it connects about 50,000 employers and 2 million job seekers in Mexico and Brazil through two brands, EmpleoListo and TrabalhoJá (pictured below).
https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/22/assured-labor-raises-6-75m-has-connected-workers-with-100k-jobs-in-latin-americas-informal-sector/