According to ACNUR from 2016, about 6.5 million Venezuelans left their country, becoming one of the most important episodes of forced migration in the world. Although the proportion of high-skilled Venezuelans is almost seven points higher than local workers in countries like Colombia, in most of the receiving countries, they compete for jobs in the low-skilled labor market. This article shows how crowdsourcing platforms may represent a window of opportunity in terms of preparedness levels of the migratory project. Moreover, the gig economy facilitates the newly arrived migrants the transition into the traditional labor market, avoiding brain waste, a phenomenon wildly documented by the literature. Finally, the COVID-19 challenged the worldwide population during months; however, participants in the gig economy were more resilient to the uncertainty than the rest of the population.