Best Jobs For Former Account Executives [2023]

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

With so many account executives 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 account executives 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 ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES

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 ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Account Manager	3.01%
2	Sales Representative	2.1%
3	Senior Account Executive	2.07%
4	Sales Manager	1.72%
5	Business Developer	1.39%
6	Business Development Manager	1.3%
7	Vice President	1.1%
8	Director Of Sales	1.1%
9	Sales Consultant	1.03%
10	Marketing Manager	0.88%
11	Owner	0.87%
12	Sales Associate	0.84%
13	Customer Service Representative	0.79%
14	Regional Sales Manager	0.76%
15	Project Manager	0.76%
16	Consultant	0.75%
17	Territory Manager	0.65%
18	Manager	0.6%
19	Senior Account Manager	0.6%
20	Marketing Director	0.58%
21	General Manager	0.56%
22	Operations Manager	0.49%
23	Account Director	0.47%
24	Administrative Assistant	0.46%
25	Office Manager	0.46%
26	National Account Manager	0.44%
27	Marketing Consultant	0.4%
28	President	0.4%
29	Account Supervisor	0.39%
30	District Sales Manager	0.38%
31	Sales/marketing	0.37%
32	Assistant Manager	0.36%
33	Store Manager	0.35%
34	Marketing Coordinator	0.33%
35	Recruiter	0.33%
36	Sales Specialist	0.32%
37	Business Development Executive	0.31%
38	Principal	0.31%
39	Inside Sales Representative	0.28%
40	Program Manager	0.28%
41	Director	0.27%
42	Senior Sales Executive	0.27%
43	Media Consultant	0.26%
44	Owner/operator	0.26%
45	Product Manager	0.25%
46	Marketing Specialist	0.25%
47	Senior Sales Representative	0.25%
48	Director Of Sales And Marketing	0.25%
49	Team Leader	0.25%
50	Territory Sales Manager	0.25%
51	District Manager	0.24%
52	President/owner	0.24%
53	Account Representative	0.24%
54	Sales And Marketing Manager	0.23%
55	Regional Accounts Manager	0.23%
56	Chief Executive Officer	0.23%
57	National Account Executive	0.22%
58	Specialist	0.22%
59	Vice President, Business Development	0.22%
60	Internship	0.2%
61	Enterprise Account Executive	0.2%
62	Key Account Manager	0.2%
63	National Sales Manager	0.2%
64	Realtor	0.2%
65	Loan Officer	0.19%
66	Regional Manager	0.19%
67	Regional Sales Director	0.19%
68	Business Consultant	0.19%
69	Agent	0.19%
70	Technical Recruiter	0.19%
71	Substitute Teacher	0.18%
72	Regional Account Executive	0.18%
73	Real Estate Agent	0.18%
74	Finance Advisor	0.18%
75	Communications Manager	0.18%
76	Volunteer	0.18%
77	Senior Manager	0.18%
78	Pharmaceutical Sales Representative	0.17%
79	Business Analyst	0.17%
80	Major Account Executive	0.17%
81	Partner	0.17%
82	Strategic Accounts Manager	0.17%
83	Sales Account Manager	0.17%
84	Executive Director	0.17%
85	Insurance Agent	0.17%
86	Business Development Representative	0.17%
87	Server	0.17%
88	Business Manager	0.17%
89	Operations Director	0.16%
90	Senior Project Manager	0.16%
91	Relationship Manager	0.16%
92	Branch Manager	0.15%
93	Managing Director	0.15%
94	Founder	0.15%
95	Associate	0.15%
96	Sales Agent	0.15%
97	Marketing Representative	0.15%
98	Public Relations	0.15%
99	Assistant Vice President	0.14%
100	Business Development Consultant	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a account executive 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 account executives to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES

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