Best Jobs For Former Coordinators [2023]

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

With so many coordinators 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 coordinators 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 COORDINATORS

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 COORDINATORS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Administrative Assistant	1.57%
2	Customer Service Representative	1.4%
3	Teacher	0.82%
4	Office Manager	0.76%
5	Internship	0.75%
6	Manager	0.72%
7	Sales Associate	0.68%
8	Project Manager	0.68%
9	Operations Manager	0.62%
10	Assistant Manager	0.62%
11	Substitute Teacher	0.6%
12	Consultant	0.56%
13	Director	0.53%
14	Program Manager	0.52%
15	Supervisor	0.52%
16	Volunteer	0.5%
17	Team Leader	0.49%
18	Specialist	0.49%
19	Registered Nurse	0.45%
20	Human Resources Coordinator	0.43%
21	Case Manager	0.42%
22	Cashier	0.41%
23	Owner	0.37%
24	Program Coordinator	0.35%
25	Project Coordinator	0.34%
26	Account Manager	0.31%
27	Associate	0.31%
28	Business Analyst	0.31%
29	Sales Representative	0.29%
30	Executive Assistant	0.29%
31	Server	0.29%
32	Instructor	0.29%
33	Receptionist	0.27%
34	Store Manager	0.27%
35	Analyst	0.27%
36	Program Director	0.27%
37	Assistant Director	0.26%
38	Administrator	0.26%
39	Billing Specialist	0.26%
40	Research Assistant	0.26%
41	Office Assistant	0.25%
42	Executive Director	0.25%
43	Account Executive	0.25%
44	Adjunct Instructor	0.22%
45	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.21%
46	Service Manager	0.21%
47	Vice President	0.21%
48	Adjunct Professor	0.21%
49	Technician	0.21%
50	Marketing Coordinator	0.2%
51	Human Resources Manager	0.2%
52	Recruiter	0.19%
53	Assistant	0.19%
54	Medical Assistant	0.19%
55	Counselor	0.19%
56	Customer Service Trainer	0.18%
57	Buyer	0.18%
58	Principal	0.18%
59	Data Analyst	0.17%
60	Office Administrator	0.17%
61	General Manager	0.17%
62	Teacher Assistant	0.17%
63	Accounts Receivable Specialist	0.17%
64	Service Coordinator	0.17%
65	Assistant Store Manager	0.17%
66	President	0.17%
67	Owner/operator	0.16%
68	Representative	0.16%
69	Technical Support Specialist	0.16%
70	Special Education Teacher	0.16%
71	Chief Executive Officer	0.16%
72	Sales Manager	0.16%
73	Marketing Manager	0.15%
74	Adjunct Faculty	0.15%
75	Operation Supervisor	0.15%
76	Service Representative	0.14%
77	Event Coordinator	0.14%
78	Operations Specialist	0.14%
79	Assistant Principal	0.14%
80	Customer Service Associate	0.14%
81	Operations Director	0.13%
82	Dispatcher	0.13%
83	Security Officer	0.13%
84	Sales Consultant	0.13%
85	Writer And Editor	0.13%
86	Production Coordinator	0.13%
87	Senior Technician Specialist	0.13%
88	Programming Specialist	0.13%
89	Support Specialist	0.13%
90	Graphic Designer	0.13%
91	Social Worker	0.13%
92	Teaching Assistant	0.13%
93	Paralegal	0.12%
94	Graduate Assistant	0.12%
95	Coach	0.12%
96	Production Manager	0.12%
97	Front Desk Receptionist	0.12%
98	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.12%
99	Preschool Teacher	0.12%
100	Product Manager	0.12%

Most Common Jobs For Former COORDINATORS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former COORDINATORS

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