Best Jobs For Former Home Health Aids [2023]

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

With so many home health aids 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 home health aids 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 HOME HEALTH AIDS

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 HOME HEALTH AIDS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Certified Nursing Assistant	6.47%
2	Customer Service Representative	3.44%
3	Registered Nurse	2.84%
4	Cashier	2.44%
5	Sales Associate	1.84%
6	Medical Assistant	1.6%
7	Licensed Practical Nurse	1.53%
8	Administrative Assistant	1.06%
9	Pharmacist Technician	0.8%
10	Direct Support Professional	0.79%
11	Internship	0.75%
12	Substitute Teacher	0.62%
13	Office Assistant	0.61%
14	Security Officer	0.58%
15	Receptionist	0.56%
16	Office Manager	0.55%
17	Server	0.55%
18	Volunteer	0.52%
19	Customer Service Trainer	0.51%
20	Assistant Manager	0.5%
21	Teacher Assistant	0.48%
22	Manager	0.47%
23	Housekeeper	0.47%
24	Teacher	0.44%
25	Crew Member	0.44%
26	Patient Care Technician	0.41%
27	Certified Nurses’ Aide	0.37%
28	Warehouse Associate	0.37%
29	Supervisor	0.37%
30	Personal Care Assistant	0.37%
31	Sales Representative	0.36%
32	Patient Care Assistant	0.36%
33	Technician	0.35%
34	Preschool Teacher	0.34%
35	Machine Operator	0.34%
36	Personal Assistant	0.33%
37	Billing Specialist	0.33%
38	Phlebotomist	0.33%
39	Case Manager	0.31%
40	Unit Secretary	0.31%
41	Aide	0.28%
42	Resident Assistant	0.28%
43	Call Center Representative	0.28%
44	Direct Care Worker	0.27%
45	Driver	0.27%
46	Assistant	0.26%
47	Security Guard	0.26%
48	Team Leader	0.25%
49	Residential Counselor	0.25%
50	Production Worker	0.25%
51	Warehouse Worker	0.25%
52	Customer Service Associate	0.24%
53	Cleaner	0.23%
54	Front Desk Receptionist	0.22%
55	Nanny	0.22%
56	Senior Technician Specialist	0.22%
57	Waitress	0.22%
58	Clerk	0.22%
59	Ship Worker	0.21%
60	Medical Assistant Externship	0.21%
61	Nurse	0.2%
62	Direct Care Staffer	0.2%
63	Counselor	0.2%
64	Staff Nurse	0.2%
65	Occupational Therapist	0.19%
66	Specialist	0.19%
67	Coordinator	0.19%
68	Dietary Aide	0.18%
69	Associate	0.18%
70	Cook	0.18%
71	Shift Supervisor	0.18%
72	In-Home Childcare Provider	0.18%
73	Nurses’ Aide	0.17%
74	Customer Care Representative	0.17%
75	Secretary	0.17%
76	Companion	0.17%
77	Office Administrator	0.17%
78	Store Manager	0.17%
79	Owner/operator	0.16%
80	Lead Teacher	0.16%
81	Customer Service Specialist	0.16%
82	Mental Health Technician	0.16%
83	Data Entry Associate	0.15%
84	Med Technician	0.15%
85	Certified Pharmacist Technician	0.15%
86	Owner	0.15%
87	Sales Associate And Customer Service	0.15%
88	Career Manager	0.15%
89	Packer	0.15%
90	Picker	0.15%
91	Activity Assistant	0.15%
92	Teacher Aide	0.15%
93	Custodian	0.15%
94	Medical Records Clerk	0.15%
95	Consultant	0.15%
96	Dental Assistant	0.14%
97	Assembler	0.14%
98	Teller	0.14%
99	Hospice Aide	0.14%
100	Physical Therapist Assistant	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former HOME HEALTH AIDS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a home health aid 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 home health aids to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former HOME HEALTH AIDS

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