Best Jobs For Former Project Coordinators [2023]

It’s tough to be a project coordinator 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 project coordinator isn’t necessarily dropping, fewer and fewer people are applying to become project coordinators in the first place and the workforce itself is looking grim.

With so many project coordinators 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 project coordinators 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 PROJECT COORDINATORS

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 PROJECT COORDINATORS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Project Manager	6.12%
2	Administrative Assistant	1.69%
3	Business Analyst	1.3%
4	Program Manager	1.02%
5	Office Manager	0.99%
6	Consultant	0.82%
7	Customer Service Representative	0.72%
8	Executive Assistant	0.69%
9	Operations Manager	0.62%
10	Account Manager	0.62%
11	Manager	0.61%
12	Senior Project Manager	0.5%
13	Information Technology Project Manager	0.45%
14	Human Resources Coordinator	0.44%
15	Program Coordinator	0.44%
16	Coordinator	0.43%
17	Internship	0.41%
18	Owner	0.4%
19	Data Analyst	0.4%
20	Assistant Project Manager	0.37%
21	Marketing Coordinator	0.36%
22	Sales Associate	0.36%
23	Account Executive	0.36%
24	Project Analyst	0.36%
25	Senior Project Coordinator	0.33%
26	Senior Business Analyst	0.32%
27	Project Engineer	0.31%
28	Team Leader	0.29%
29	Office Administrator	0.29%
30	Research Assistant	0.28%
31	Product Manager	0.27%
32	Buyer	0.26%
33	Project Administrator	0.26%
34	Specialist	0.25%
35	Assistant Manager	0.25%
36	Marketing Manager	0.24%
37	Technical Project Coordinator	0.23%
38	Volunteer	0.23%
39	Director	0.23%
40	Project Specialist	0.23%
41	Owner/operator	0.23%
42	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.23%
43	Finance Analyst	0.22%
44	Contracts Administrator	0.22%
45	Operations Specialist	0.22%
46	Analyst	0.22%
47	Associate	0.22%
48	Project Leader	0.21%
49	Operations Director	0.21%
50	Sales Representative	0.21%
51	Recruiter	0.21%
52	Substitute Teacher	0.2%
53	Human Resource Specialist	0.2%
54	Graphic Designer	0.19%
55	Operations Coordinator	0.19%
56	Business Analyst-Consultant	0.19%
57	Teacher	0.19%
58	Administrative Coordinator	0.19%
59	Administrator	0.18%
60	Junior Project Manager	0.18%
61	Registered Nurse	0.18%
62	Supervisor	0.18%
63	General Manager	0.18%
64	Technical Writer	0.17%
65	Executive Director	0.16%
66	Human Resources Manager	0.16%
67	Technical Support Specialist	0.16%
68	Construction Manager	0.16%
69	Billing Specialist	0.16%
70	Server	0.16%
71	Associate Project Manager	0.16%
72	Graduate Assistant	0.15%
73	Store Manager	0.15%
74	Senior Consultant	0.15%
75	Assistant Director	0.15%
76	Communications Specialist	0.15%
77	Business Developer	0.15%
78	Account Coordinator	0.14%
79	Systems Administrator	0.14%
80	Graduate Research Assistant	0.14%
81	Communications Manager	0.14%
82	Case Manager	0.14%
83	Business Manager	0.14%
84	Writer And Editor	0.14%
85	Research Associate	0.14%
86	Vice President	0.14%
87	Facilities Manager	0.13%
88	Programming Specialist	0.13%
89	Project Assistant	0.12%
90	Program Director	0.12%
91	Estimator	0.12%
92	Teaching Assistant	0.12%
93	Instructor	0.12%
94	Quality Assurance Analyst	0.12%
95	Adjunct Professor	0.12%
96	Accountant	0.12%
97	Projects Controller	0.12%
98	Executive Administrative Assistant	0.12%
99	Logistics Coordinator	0.12%
100	Planner	0.12%

Most Common Jobs For Former PROJECT COORDINATORS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a project coordinator 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 project coordinators to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former PROJECT COORDINATORS

Using resume information from our database of over 7 million resumes, we looked at all resumes that listed project coordinator under their work history. Then we looked at which jobs showed up on their work histories following their stints as a project coordinator, 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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