Best Jobs For Former Consultants [2023]

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

With so many consultants 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 consultants 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 CONSULTANTS

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 CONSULTANTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Senior Consultant	1.61%
2	Project Manager	1.41%
3	Vice President	0.88%
4	Business Analyst	0.79%
5	Manager	0.75%
6	Senior Software Engineer	0.7%
7	Program Manager	0.63%
8	Owner	0.63%
9	Senior Project Manager	0.58%
10	Director	0.57%
11	Internship	0.48%
12	Chief Finance Officer	0.48%
13	Sales Associate	0.46%
14	Customer Service Representative	0.44%
15	Principal	0.42%
16	Controller	0.42%
17	Operations Manager	0.41%
18	Administrative Assistant	0.4%
19	Systems Administrator	0.4%
20	Adjunct Professor	0.39%
21	President	0.38%
22	Software Engineer	0.37%
23	Associate	0.35%
24	Team Leader	0.35%
25	Senior Manager	0.34%
26	Chief Executive Officer	0.34%
27	Account Executive	0.34%
28	Office Manager	0.33%
29	General Manager	0.32%
30	Business Developer	0.32%
31	Volunteer	0.31%
32	Sales Representative	0.3%
33	Account Manager	0.3%
34	Research Assistant	0.3%
35	Executive Director	0.3%
36	Substitute Teacher	0.29%
37	Analyst	0.29%
38	Data Analyst	0.28%
39	Programmer Analyst	0.27%
40	Information Technology Manager	0.27%
41	Principal Consultant	0.27%
42	Systems Engineer	0.26%
43	Management Consultant	0.25%
44	Senior Analyst	0.25%
45	Information Technology Consultant	0.25%
46	Instructor	0.24%
47	Teacher	0.24%
48	Managing Director	0.24%
49	Product Manager	0.24%
50	Specialist	0.24%
51	Administrator	0.23%
52	Systems Analyst	0.23%
53	Senior Business Analyst	0.22%
54	Information Technology Project Manager	0.22%
55	Operations Director	0.21%
56	Human Resources Coordinator	0.21%
57	Sales Manager	0.2%
58	Human Resources Manager	0.2%
59	Senior Systems Engineer	0.2%
60	Solutions Architect	0.2%
61	Finance Analyst	0.2%
62	Program Director	0.19%
63	Architect	0.19%
64	Founder	0.19%
65	Lead Technician	0.19%
66	Senior Technician Specialist	0.19%
67	Adjunct Faculty	0.19%
68	Chief Operating Officer	0.19%
69	Technical Support Specialist	0.18%
70	Assistant Vice President	0.18%
71	Director Of Information	0.18%
72	Developer	0.18%
73	Lead Consultant	0.18%
74	Business Development Manager	0.18%
75	Contractor/consultant	0.17%
76	Senior Finance Analyst	0.17%
77	Assistant Manager	0.17%
78	Sales Consultant	0.17%
79	Registered Nurse	0.17%
80	Coordinator	0.17%
81	Recruiter	0.17%
82	Senior Programmer Analyst	0.17%
83	President/chief Executive Officer	0.16%
84	Business Consultant	0.16%
85	Marketing Director	0.16%
86	Senior Associate	0.16%
87	Finance Director	0.16%
88	Owner/operator	0.16%
89	Database Administrator	0.16%
90	Marketing Manager	0.16%
91	Software Developer	0.16%
92	Supervisor	0.16%
93	Technical Writer	0.16%
94	Network Engineer	0.16%
95	Senior Vice President	0.15%
96	Project Leader	0.15%
97	Store Manager	0.15%
98	Co-Founder	0.15%
99	Project Coordinator	0.15%
100	Server	0.15%

Most Common Jobs For Former CONSULTANTS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former CONSULTANTS

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