Best Jobs For Former Administrators [2023]

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

With so many administrators 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 administrators 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 ADMINISTRATORS

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 ADMINISTRATORS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Administrative Assistant	2.39%
2	Executive Director	1.24%
3	Customer Service Representative	1.22%
4	Office Manager	1.11%
5	Consultant	0.94%
6	Systems Administrator	0.89%
7	Sales Associate	0.63%
8	Manager	0.63%
9	Human Resources Coordinator	0.63%
10	Operations Manager	0.61%
11	Project Manager	0.59%
12	Registered Nurse	0.58%
13	Chief Executive Officer	0.56%
14	Owner	0.5%
15	Executive Assistant	0.49%
16	Substitute Teacher	0.49%
17	Teacher	0.47%
18	Program Manager	0.44%
19	Director	0.4%
20	Senior Administrator	0.39%
21	Team Leader	0.39%
22	Account Manager	0.39%
23	Specialist	0.38%
24	Assistant Manager	0.37%
25	Supervisor	0.36%
26	Office Administrator	0.36%
27	Human Resources Manager	0.34%
28	General Manager	0.34%
29	Coordinator	0.33%
30	Business Analyst	0.32%
31	Volunteer	0.32%
32	Internship	0.32%
33	Analyst	0.31%
34	Owner/operator	0.3%
35	Associate	0.3%
36	Operations Director	0.3%
37	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.3%
38	Receptionist	0.3%
39	Chief Operating Officer	0.28%
40	Vice President	0.28%
41	Project Coordinator	0.28%
42	Principal	0.27%
43	Senior Software Engineer	0.27%
44	Case Manager	0.25%
45	Systems Engineer	0.25%
46	Legal Assistant	0.25%
47	Office Assistant	0.25%
48	President	0.24%
49	Billing Specialist	0.24%
50	Human Resource Specialist	0.23%
51	Server	0.23%
52	Technical Support Specialist	0.23%
53	Business Manager	0.23%
54	Network Engineer	0.22%
55	Senior Technician Specialist	0.22%
56	Sales Representative	0.22%
57	Human Resources Generalist	0.22%
58	Data Analyst	0.22%
59	Cashier	0.21%
60	Accounts Receivable Specialist	0.21%
61	Adjunct Professor	0.21%
62	Recruiter	0.21%
63	Finance Analyst	0.2%
64	Systems Analyst	0.2%
65	Account Executive	0.2%
66	Accounting Clerk	0.19%
67	Development Administrator	0.19%
68	Information Technology Manager	0.19%
69	Instructor	0.19%
70	Network Administrator	0.18%
71	Computer Technician	0.18%
72	Senior Consultant	0.18%
73	Administrative Director	0.17%
74	Medical Assistant	0.17%
75	Senior System Administrator	0.17%
76	Buyer	0.17%
77	Engineer	0.17%
78	Senior Systems Engineer	0.16%
79	Nursing Director	0.16%
80	Paralegal	0.15%
81	Technician	0.15%
82	Database Administrator	0.15%
83	Marketing Director	0.15%
84	Property Manager	0.15%
85	Adjunct Instructor	0.15%
86	Personal Assistant	0.15%
87	Customer Service Trainer	0.15%
88	Developer	0.15%
89	Human Resources Assistant	0.15%
90	Business Developer	0.15%
91	Information Technology Technician	0.15%
92	Program Director	0.15%
93	Contracts Administrator	0.15%
94	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.15%
95	Information Technology Consultant	0.15%
96	Nursing Home Administrator	0.15%
97	President/chief Executive Officer	0.14%
98	Sales Manager	0.14%
99	Security Officer	0.14%
100	Executive Administrator	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former ADMINISTRATORS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a administrator 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 administrators to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former ADMINISTRATORS

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