Best Jobs For Former Administrative Assistants [2023]

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

With so many administrative assistants 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 administrative assistants 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 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS

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 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Customer Service Representative	3.01%
2	Office Manager	2.61%
3	Executive Assistant	1.87%
4	Sales Associate	1.46%
5	Office Assistant	1.07%
6	Receptionist	0.83%
7	Internship	0.76%
8	Human Resources Coordinator	0.76%
9	Cashier	0.73%
10	Assistant Manager	0.66%
11	Substitute Teacher	0.66%
12	Legal Assistant	0.64%
13	Server	0.57%
14	Office Administrator	0.56%
15	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.53%
16	Manager	0.52%
17	Executive Administrative Assistant	0.51%
18	Teacher	0.51%
19	Volunteer	0.51%
20	Billing Specialist	0.48%
21	Human Resources Assistant	0.47%
22	Senior Administrative Assistant	0.46%
23	Coordinator	0.4%
24	Administrator	0.4%
25	Project Coordinator	0.39%
26	Medical Assistant	0.39%
27	Secretary	0.36%
28	Administrative Coordinator	0.36%
29	Sales Representative	0.34%
30	Customer Service Trainer	0.34%
31	Operations Manager	0.34%
32	Project Manager	0.32%
33	Account Manager	0.31%
34	Assistant	0.31%
35	Specialist	0.3%
36	Owner	0.3%
37	Human Resources Manager	0.28%
38	Team Leader	0.27%
39	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.27%
40	Associate	0.27%
41	Supervisor	0.27%
42	Accounting Clerk	0.26%
43	Store Manager	0.26%
44	Case Manager	0.25%
45	Paralegal	0.25%
46	Clerk	0.25%
47	Program Coordinator	0.25%
48	Administrative Specialist	0.25%
49	Data Entry Clerk	0.25%
50	Bookkeeper	0.24%
51	Research Assistant	0.24%
52	Accounting Assistant	0.24%
53	Data Entry Associate	0.24%
54	Accounts Receivable Specialist	0.24%
55	Teacher Assistant	0.22%
56	Front Desk Receptionist	0.22%
57	Registered Nurse	0.22%
58	Assistant Office Manager	0.22%
59	Program Manager	0.22%
60	Customer Service Associate	0.22%
61	Marketing Coordinator	0.21%
62	Teller	0.21%
63	Program Assistant	0.21%
64	Home Health Aid	0.21%
65	Pharmacist Technician	0.2%
66	Administrative Support	0.2%
67	Marketing Assistant	0.2%
68	Consultant	0.19%
69	Customer Service Specialist	0.19%
70	Data Analyst	0.19%
71	Human Resource Specialist	0.19%
72	Personal Assistant	0.19%
73	Legal Secretary	0.18%
74	Recruiter	0.18%
75	Medical Receptionist	0.18%
76	Service Representative	0.18%
77	Graphic Designer	0.18%
78	Accountant	0.17%
79	Buyer	0.17%
80	Account Executive	0.17%
81	Human Resources Generalist	0.17%
82	Analyst	0.17%
83	Security Officer	0.16%
84	Property Manager	0.16%
85	Operations Specialist	0.16%
86	Medical Records Clerk	0.16%
87	Support Specialist	0.16%
88	Service Coordinator	0.15%
89	General Manager	0.15%
90	Recruiting Coordinator	0.15%
91	Owner/operator	0.15%
92	Preschool Teacher	0.15%
93	Human Resources Administrative Assistant	0.14%
94	Business Analyst	0.14%
95	Unit Secretary	0.14%
96	Sales Assistant	0.14%
97	Sales Manager	0.13%
98	Assistant Director	0.13%
99	Technician	0.13%
100	Operations Coordinator	0.12%

Most Common Jobs For Former ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a administrative assistant 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 administrative assistants to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS

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