Best Jobs For Former Customer Service Trainers [2023]

It’s tough to be a customer service trainer nowadays, and more and more of them are losing confidence in their own profession.

While the amount of people majoring in courses preparing people for a job as a customer service trainer isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become customer service trainers in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many customer service trainers no longer sticking around, this begs the question:

What are they all doing now?

We were curious, so we looked through the resumes of former customer service trainers to see what kind of jobs they were moving into after leaving the field. There were thousands of answers, so we made the cutoff at the top 100 jobs.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Best Jobs For Former CUSTOMER SERVICE TRAINERS

Some of these items are admittedly more attractive than one another as far as actually working the job goes, but one way or another, you’ve got to admit they’re eye-catching.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former CUSTOMER SERVICE TRAINERS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Customer Service Representative	6.12%
2	Cashier	2.54%
3	Sales Associate	2.23%
4	Administrative Assistant	1.78%
5	Assistant Manager	1.02%
6	Internship	0.87%
7	Office Manager	0.86%
8	Server	0.82%
9	Manager	0.81%
10	Sales Representative	0.75%
11	Receptionist	0.7%
12	Office Assistant	0.57%
13	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.57%
14	Sales Associate And Customer Service	0.56%
15	Volunteer	0.53%
16	Security Officer	0.52%
17	Pharmacist Technician	0.51%
18	Teller	0.51%
19	Customer Service Associate	0.47%
20	Teacher	0.46%
21	Supervisor	0.46%
22	Substitute Teacher	0.44%
23	Medical Assistant	0.44%
24	Data Entry Associate	0.43%
25	Technical Support Technician	0.42%
26	Store Manager	0.42%
27	Machine Operator	0.42%
28	Billing Specialist	0.4%
29	Associate	0.38%
30	Home Health Aid	0.37%
31	Team Leader	0.36%
32	Warehouse Associate	0.34%
33	Specialist	0.33%
34	Warehouse Worker	0.33%
35	Technician	0.32%
36	Account Manager	0.32%
37	Driver	0.3%
38	Teacher Assistant	0.29%
39	Assistant	0.28%
40	Crew Member	0.28%
41	Customer Service Specialist	0.26%
42	Material Handler	0.25%
43	Front Desk Receptionist	0.24%
44	Clerk	0.24%
45	Delivery Driver	0.24%
46	Owner	0.24%
47	Agent	0.23%
48	Waitress	0.23%
49	Data Entry Clerk	0.22%
50	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.21%
51	Service Representative	0.21%
52	Dispatcher	0.21%
53	Coordinator	0.2%
54	Technical Support Specialist	0.2%
55	Customer Service Manager	0.2%
56	Forklift Operator	0.2%
57	Sales Consultant	0.2%
58	Customer Service Agent	0.19%
59	Cook	0.19%
60	Secretary	0.19%
61	Operations Manager	0.19%
62	Nanny	0.19%
63	Assembler	0.19%
64	Registered Nurse	0.18%
65	Production Worker	0.18%
66	Graphic Designer	0.18%
67	Account Executive	0.18%
68	Security Guard	0.18%
69	Human Resources Coordinator	0.17%
70	Shift Supervisor	0.17%
71	Call Center Representative	0.17%
72	Customer Service Technician	0.17%
73	Ship Worker	0.17%
74	Merchandiser	0.16%
75	Package Handler	0.16%
76	Customer Care Representative	0.16%
77	General Manager	0.16%
78	Hostess	0.16%
79	Executive Assistant	0.15%
80	Representative	0.15%
81	Barista	0.15%
82	Project Manager	0.15%
83	Accounting Clerk	0.15%
84	Manufacturing Team Member	0.15%
85	Service Cashier	0.15%
86	Case Manager	0.15%
87	Maintenance Technician	0.15%
88	Consultant	0.14%
89	Accounts Receivable Specialist	0.14%
90	Shift Leader	0.14%
91	Office Administrator	0.14%
92	Assistant Store Manager	0.14%
93	Housekeeper	0.14%
94	Customer Care Advocate	0.14%
95	Shift Manager	0.14%
96	Research Assistant	0.14%
97	Sales Person	0.14%
98	Owner/operator	0.13%
99	Preschool Teacher	0.13%
100	Bartender	0.13%

Most Common Jobs For Former CUSTOMER SERVICE TRAINERS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a customer service trainer would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — they’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former customer service trainers to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former CUSTOMER SERVICE TRAINERS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed customer service trainer under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a customer service trainer, sorting them by their most frequent.

That’s how we made the initial ranked list.

To make our list of most interesting jobs, we looked through the ranked list to see if any positions:

Showed up in fewer than 1% of all new jobs
And, were not part of the 100 most common jobs in our database

Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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