Best Jobs For Former Clerks [2023]

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

With so many clerks 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 clerks 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 CLERKS

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 CLERKS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Customer Service Representative	3.65%
2	Administrative Assistant	2.69%
3	Sales Associate	1.88%
4	Cashier	1.77%
5	Assistant Manager	1.0%
6	Internship	0.93%
7	Office Manager	0.83%
8	Receptionist	0.73%
9	Volunteer	0.73%
10	Substitute Teacher	0.69%
11	Server	0.65%
12	Manager	0.62%
13	Office Assistant	0.62%
14	Associate	0.57%
15	Teacher	0.48%
16	Billing Specialist	0.48%
17	Supervisor	0.46%
18	Security Officer	0.46%
19	Secretary	0.45%
20	Sales Representative	0.45%
21	Customer Service Trainer	0.45%
22	Machine Operator	0.41%
23	Pharmacist Technician	0.4%
24	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.4%
25	Teller	0.39%
26	Data Entry Clerk	0.36%
27	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.36%
28	Team Leader	0.36%
29	Specialist	0.36%
30	Legal Assistant	0.35%
31	Crew Member	0.34%
32	Assistant	0.33%
33	Owner	0.31%
34	Medical Assistant	0.31%
35	Home Health Aid	0.3%
36	Attorney	0.3%
37	Human Resources Coordinator	0.29%
38	Technician	0.29%
39	Warehouse Associate	0.29%
40	Store Manager	0.27%
41	Data Entry Associate	0.27%
42	Material Handler	0.25%
43	Driver	0.24%
44	Accounting Clerk	0.24%
45	Cook	0.24%
46	Warehouse Worker	0.23%
47	Coordinator	0.23%
48	Paralegal	0.23%
49	Mail Clerk	0.23%
50	Processor	0.22%
51	Medical Records Clerk	0.21%
52	Merchandiser	0.2%
53	Agent	0.2%
54	Case Manager	0.2%
55	Barista	0.2%
56	Customer Service Associate	0.2%
57	Law Clerk	0.19%
58	Research Assistant	0.19%
59	Office Clerk	0.19%
60	Analyst	0.19%
61	Registered Nurse	0.19%
62	Data Analyst	0.19%
63	Front Desk Receptionist	0.19%
64	Teacher Assistant	0.19%
65	Accountant	0.18%
66	Operations Manager	0.18%
67	Claim Processor	0.18%
68	Service Representative	0.17%
69	Package Handler	0.17%
70	Unit Secretary	0.17%
71	Delivery Driver	0.17%
72	Shift Supervisor	0.16%
73	Tutor	0.16%
74	Administrator	0.16%
75	Human Resources Assistant	0.16%
76	Ship Worker	0.16%
77	Operator	0.16%
78	Office Administrator	0.16%
79	Executive Assistant	0.16%
80	Associate Attorney	0.15%
81	Consultant	0.15%
82	Call Center Representative	0.15%
83	Licensed Practical Nurse	0.15%
84	Assembler	0.15%
85	Security Guard	0.15%
86	Account Manager	0.15%
87	Stock Clerk	0.15%
88	Support Specialist	0.15%
89	Owner/operator	0.15%
90	Forklift Operator	0.15%
91	Assistant Store Manager	0.13%
92	Sales Person	0.13%
93	Property Manager	0.13%
94	Housekeeper	0.13%
95	Accounting Assistant	0.13%
96	Technical Support Specialist	0.13%
97	Graphic Designer	0.13%
98	Project Manager	0.13%
99	Account Executive	0.13%
100	Program Assistant	0.13%

Most Common Jobs For Former CLERKS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former CLERKS

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