Best Jobs For Former Associates [2023]

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

With so many associates 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 associates 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 ASSOCIATES

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 ASSOCIATES

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Sales Associate	2.05%
2	Customer Service Representative	1.7%
3	Attorney	1.14%
4	Cashier	1.06%
5	Internship	1.05%
6	Senior Associate	0.99%
7	Manager	0.84%
8	Assistant Manager	0.83%
9	Vice President	0.83%
10	Administrative Assistant	0.8%
11	Consultant	0.79%
12	Partner	0.72%
13	Server	0.6%
14	Owner	0.6%
15	Warehouse Associate	0.59%
16	Contract Attorney	0.58%
17	Volunteer	0.5%
18	Principal	0.48%
19	General Counsel	0.46%
20	Project Manager	0.44%
21	Security Officer	0.38%
22	Team Leader	0.38%
23	Supervisor	0.37%
24	Office Manager	0.36%
25	Director	0.35%
26	Office Assistant	0.34%
27	Substitute Teacher	0.34%
28	Analyst	0.33%
29	Teacher	0.32%
30	Sales Representative	0.32%
31	Senior Counselor	0.31%
32	Operations Manager	0.3%
33	Machine Operator	0.3%
34	Technician	0.29%
35	Specialist	0.29%
36	Account Manager	0.28%
37	Teller	0.27%
38	Crew Member	0.26%
39	Store Manager	0.26%
40	Customer Service Associate	0.26%
41	Research Assistant	0.26%
42	Pharmacist Technician	0.24%
43	Customer Service Trainer	0.24%
44	Corporate Counsel	0.22%
45	Receptionist	0.22%
46	Assistant	0.22%
47	Assistant General Counsel	0.22%
48	Material Handler	0.22%
49	Registered Nurse	0.21%
50	Business Analyst	0.21%
51	Program Manager	0.21%
52	Assistant Vice President	0.21%
53	Coordinator	0.2%
54	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.2%
55	Associate Attorney	0.2%
56	Driver	0.2%
57	Senior Consultant	0.2%
58	Warehouse Worker	0.19%
59	Assistant Store Manager	0.19%
60	Forklift Operator	0.18%
61	Finance Analyst	0.18%
62	Staff Attorney	0.18%
63	Associate General Counsel	0.18%
64	Human Resources Coordinator	0.18%
65	Medical Assistant	0.17%
66	Teacher Assistant	0.17%
67	Senior Analyst	0.17%
68	Senior Vice President	0.17%
69	Solo Practitioner	0.16%
70	Manufacturing Team Member	0.16%
71	Security Guard	0.16%
72	Graphic Designer	0.16%
73	Account Executive	0.16%
74	Technical Support Specialist	0.15%
75	Business Developer	0.15%
76	President	0.15%
77	Shift Supervisor	0.15%
78	Legal Counsel	0.15%
79	Home Health Aid	0.15%
80	Senior Manager	0.15%
81	Adjunct Professor	0.15%
82	Founder	0.15%
83	Managing Director	0.15%
84	Marketing Internship	0.15%
85	Agent	0.14%
86	Associate Director	0.14%
87	Owner/operator	0.14%
88	Clerk	0.14%
89	Case Manager	0.14%
90	Chiropractor, Sole Practitioner	0.14%
91	General Manager	0.13%
92	Merchandiser	0.13%
93	Executive Assistant	0.13%
94	Managing Partner	0.13%
95	Research Associate	0.12%
96	Hostess	0.12%
97	Billing Specialist	0.12%
98	Ship Worker	0.12%
99	Data Analyst	0.12%
100	Teaching Assistant	0.12%

Most Common Jobs For Former ASSOCIATES

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former ASSOCIATES

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