Best Jobs For Former Assistants [2023]

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

With so many 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 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 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 ASSISTANTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Sales Associate	2.55%
2	Administrative Assistant	2.01%
3	Internship	1.87%
4	Customer Service Representative	1.78%
5	Cashier	1.64%
6	Volunteer	0.96%
7	Server	0.89%
8	Assistant Manager	0.86%
9	Manager	0.78%
10	Office Manager	0.74%
11	Research Assistant	0.66%
12	Teacher	0.62%
13	Office Assistant	0.6%
14	Substitute Teacher	0.59%
15	Associate	0.59%
16	Receptionist	0.57%
17	Sales Representative	0.45%
18	Supervisor	0.44%
19	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.4%
20	Medical Assistant	0.37%
21	Owner	0.37%
22	Teacher Assistant	0.37%
23	Executive Assistant	0.35%
24	Customer Service Trainer	0.34%
25	Specialist	0.34%
26	Crew Member	0.34%
27	Coordinator	0.32%
28	Consultant	0.32%
29	Tutor	0.31%
30	Security Officer	0.31%
31	Project Manager	0.31%
32	Teaching Assistant	0.31%
33	Technician	0.3%
34	Registered Nurse	0.28%
35	Team Leader	0.26%
36	Human Resources Coordinator	0.25%
37	Graphic Designer	0.24%
38	Waitress	0.23%
39	Legal Assistant	0.23%
40	Store Manager	0.23%
41	Pharmacist Technician	0.23%
42	Teller	0.23%
43	Graduate Assistant	0.23%
44	Production Assistant	0.23%
45	Operations Manager	0.23%
46	Customer Service Associate	0.21%
47	Machine Operator	0.21%
48	Account Manager	0.21%
49	Secretary	0.21%
50	Account Executive	0.21%
51	Case Manager	0.2%
52	Director	0.2%
53	Nanny	0.19%
54	Instructor	0.19%
55	Marketing Internship	0.19%
56	Barista	0.19%
57	Ship Worker	0.19%
58	Home Health Aid	0.19%
59	Counselor	0.18%
60	Student Assistant	0.18%
61	Dental Assistant	0.18%
62	General Manager	0.18%
63	Driver	0.17%
64	Personal Assistant	0.17%
65	Hostess	0.17%
66	Program Coordinator	0.17%
67	Clerk	0.17%
68	Laboratory Technician	0.16%
69	Program Manager	0.16%
70	Warehouse Associate	0.16%
71	Vice President	0.16%
72	Analyst	0.15%
73	Preschool Teacher	0.15%
74	Data Analyst	0.15%
75	Operator	0.15%
76	Graduate Research Assistant	0.15%
77	Data Entry Clerk	0.15%
78	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.15%
79	Assistant Director	0.14%
80	Office Administrator	0.14%
81	Owner/operator	0.14%
82	Billing Specialist	0.14%
83	Representative	0.14%
84	Marketing Coordinator	0.14%
85	Data Entry Associate	0.13%
86	Laboratory Assistant	0.13%
87	Manufacturing Team Member	0.13%
88	Program Assistant	0.13%
89	Cook	0.13%
90	Paralegal	0.13%
91	Front Desk Receptionist	0.13%
92	Designer	0.12%
93	Senior Technician Specialist	0.12%
94	Photographer	0.12%
95	Bartender Server	0.12%
96	Shift Supervisor	0.12%
97	Licensed Practical Nurse	0.12%
98	Administrator	0.12%
99	Accountant	0.12%
100	Business Analyst	0.12%

Most Common Jobs For Former ASSISTANTS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former ASSISTANTS

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