Best Jobs For Former Analysts [2023]

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

With so many analysts 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 analysts 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 ANALYSTS

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 ANALYSTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Senior Analyst	1.76%
2	Business Analyst	1.73%
3	Consultant	1.41%
4	Associate	1.21%
5	Project Manager	1.02%
6	Finance Analyst	0.97%
7	Customer Service Representative	0.87%
8	Manager	0.74%
9	Data Analyst	0.73%
10	Administrative Assistant	0.63%
11	Vice President	0.58%
12	Team Leader	0.58%
13	Intelligence Analyst	0.54%
14	Internship	0.53%
15	Senior Consultant	0.44%
16	Program Manager	0.42%
17	Operations Analyst	0.42%
18	Specialist	0.42%
19	Assistant Vice President	0.42%
20	Sales Associate	0.38%
21	Senior Finance Analyst	0.35%
22	Operations Manager	0.34%
23	Systems Analyst	0.33%
24	Account Manager	0.33%
25	Research Assistant	0.32%
26	Office Manager	0.31%
27	Accountant	0.31%
28	Research Analyst	0.31%
29	Product Manager	0.3%
30	Compliance Analyst	0.3%
31	Quality Assurance Analyst	0.3%
32	Senior Associate	0.3%
33	Senior Business Analyst	0.3%
34	Owner	0.3%
35	Coordinator	0.29%
36	Systems Administrator	0.29%
37	Billing Specialist	0.28%
38	Human Resources Coordinator	0.27%
39	Supervisor	0.27%
40	Underwriter	0.26%
41	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.26%
42	Systems Engineer	0.24%
43	Engineer	0.24%
44	Operations Specialist	0.22%
45	Management Analyst	0.2%
46	Research Associate	0.2%
47	Director	0.2%
48	Information Technology Analyst	0.2%
49	Investment Analyst	0.2%
50	Administrator	0.19%
51	Network Technician	0.19%
52	Support Analyst	0.19%
53	Volunteer	0.19%
54	Sales Representative	0.19%
55	Staff Accountant	0.19%
56	Business Developer	0.19%
57	Senior Manager	0.18%
58	Program Analyst	0.18%
59	Cashier	0.18%
60	Finance Manager	0.18%
61	Technical Support Specialist	0.17%
62	Controller	0.17%
63	Principal	0.17%
64	Substitute Teacher	0.17%
65	Medical Coder	0.17%
66	Project Coordinator	0.17%
67	Programmer Analyst	0.17%
68	Portfolio Manager	0.17%
69	Senior Software Engineer	0.17%
70	All-Source Analyst	0.16%
71	Auditor	0.16%
72	Technical Analyst	0.16%
73	Information Technology Project Manager	0.16%
74	Senior Project Manager	0.16%
75	Teaching Assistant	0.16%
76	Business Consultant	0.16%
77	Assistant Manager	0.15%
78	Senior Data Analyst-	0.15%
79	Senior Accountant	0.15%
80	Credit Analyst	0.15%
81	Instructor	0.15%
82	Senior Specialist	0.15%
83	Analyst Lead	0.15%
84	Subject Matter Expert	0.15%
85	Software Engineer	0.15%
86	Legal Assistant	0.15%
87	Co-Founder	0.15%
88	Reporting Analyst	0.15%
89	Account Executive	0.15%
90	Attorney	0.14%
91	Operations Director	0.14%
92	Office Assistant	0.14%
93	Graduate Research Assistant	0.14%
94	Accounts Receivable Specialist	0.14%
95	Compliance Specialist	0.14%
96	Scientist	0.14%
97	Managing Director	0.14%
98	All Source Intelligence Analyst	0.14%
99	Risk Analyst	0.13%
100	Senior Underwriter	0.13%

Most Common Jobs For Former ANALYSTS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former ANALYSTS

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