Best Jobs For Former General Managers [2023]

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

With so many general managers 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 general managers 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 GENERAL MANAGERS

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 GENERAL MANAGERS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Manager	2.41%
2	Store Manager	2.31%
3	Operations Manager	2.1%
4	Assistant Manager	1.64%
5	Owner	1.21%
6	Vice President	1.17%
7	Sales Manager	1.12%
8	Operations Director	1.07%
9	Project Manager	0.9%
10	Sales Representative	0.85%
11	Consultant	0.85%
12	District Manager	0.81%
13	Owner/operator	0.78%
14	Customer Service Representative	0.74%
15	Assistant General Manager	0.72%
16	Sales Associate	0.71%
17	President	0.69%
18	Office Manager	0.69%
19	Account Executive	0.63%
20	Account Manager	0.54%
21	Director	0.47%
22	Administrative Assistant	0.47%
23	Director Of Sales	0.45%
24	Chief Operating Officer	0.44%
25	Service Manager	0.43%
26	Chief Executive Officer	0.43%
27	Business Developer	0.42%
28	President Of Operations	0.42%
29	Server	0.42%
30	Supervisor	0.39%
31	Regional Manager	0.38%
32	Sales Consultant	0.37%
33	Assistant Store Manager	0.37%
34	Property Manager	0.36%
35	Area Manager	0.35%
36	Principal	0.35%
37	Owner/manager	0.34%
38	Executive Chef	0.34%
39	Plant Manager	0.34%
40	Business Development Manager	0.33%
41	Program Manager	0.32%
42	Managing Director	0.32%
43	General Sales Manager	0.3%
44	Team Leader	0.29%
45	Restaurant Manager	0.29%
46	Managing Partner	0.29%
47	Executive Director	0.29%
48	Senior Project Manager	0.28%
49	Sales/marketing	0.28%
50	President/owner	0.28%
51	Branch Manager	0.28%
52	Production Manager	0.27%
53	Regional Sales Manager	0.26%
54	Director Of Food And Beverage	0.24%
55	Marketing Director	0.24%
56	Internship	0.23%
57	Vice President & General Manager	0.23%
58	Business Manager	0.22%
59	President/chief Executive Officer	0.22%
60	Chief Finance Officer	0.22%
61	Territory Manager	0.22%
62	Kitchen Manager	0.21%
63	Training Manager	0.21%
64	Bartender	0.21%
65	Department Manager	0.2%
66	District Sales Manager	0.2%
67	Director Of Sales And Marketing	0.2%
68	Cashier	0.19%
69	Associate	0.19%
70	Marketing Manager	0.19%
71	Food And Beverage Manager	0.19%
72	Food Service Director	0.18%
73	Business Consultant	0.18%
74	Human Resources Manager	0.18%
75	Senior Manager	0.18%
76	Human Resources Coordinator	0.17%
77	Teacher	0.17%
78	Purchasing Manager	0.17%
79	Driver	0.17%
80	Finance Manager	0.17%
81	Controller	0.17%
82	Customer Service Manager	0.17%
83	Realtor	0.16%
84	Specialist	0.16%
85	Product Manager	0.16%
86	Vice President, Business Development	0.16%
87	Substitute Teacher	0.16%
88	General Manager Of Operations	0.16%
89	Facilities Manager	0.15%
90	Bartender Server	0.15%
91	Associate Manager	0.15%
92	Volunteer	0.15%
93	Buyer	0.15%
94	Warehouse Manager	0.15%
95	Partner	0.14%
96	Executive Assistant	0.14%
97	Security Officer	0.14%
98	Management Consultant	0.14%
99	Co-Owner	0.14%
100	Recruiter	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former GENERAL MANAGERS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former GENERAL MANAGERS

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