Development and Implementation of Location-Based Mobile Job Portal for Blue-Collar Jobs in Nigeria

Abstract Due to the unavailability of white-collar jobs and a steady rise in the unemployment rate in Nigeria, it has caused many Nigerians to stop their search for white-collar jobs and pick up blue-collar jobs alternative source of income. However, due to high capital demands to open workspace and a general lack of business advertisement, most blue-collar businesses start-up never make it out of the infant stage. Location-based service (LBS) was aimed at solving the above problem. And the implementation of an android E-commerce mobile application that helps blue-collar artisans find job opportunities within their locality. This paper describes the architecture of location-based service and design and develops a mobile app to mitigate the issue stated above.