Best Jobs For Former Human Resources Coordinators [2023]

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

With so many human resources 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 human resources 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 HUMAN RESOURCES 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 HUMAN RESOURCES COORDINATORS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Human Resources Manager	8.78%
2	Human Resources Generalist	4.35%
3	Director Of Human Resources	3.0%
4	Administrative Assistant	2.11%
5	Human Resource Specialist	2.01%
6	Recruiter	1.98%
7	Human Resources Consultant	1.67%
8	Human Resources Business Partner	1.35%
9	Human Resources Assistant	1.29%
10	Office Manager	1.16%
11	Recruiting Coordinator	0.83%
12	Customer Service Representative	0.8%
13	Benefit Specialist	0.77%
14	Senior Human Resources Generalist	0.63%
15	Human Resources Analyst	0.62%
16	Consultant	0.6%
17	Executive Assistant	0.56%
18	Human Resources Recruiter	0.53%
19	Payroll Administrator	0.5%
20	Human Resource Officer	0.49%
21	Senior Recruiter	0.49%
22	Senior Human Resources Business Partner	0.46%
23	Project Manager	0.44%
24	Payroll Specialist	0.44%
25	Operations Manager	0.43%
26	Manager	0.41%
27	Human Resources Associate	0.4%
28	Program Manager	0.39%
29	Sales Associate	0.39%
30	Senior Vice President	0.34%
31	Vice President	0.34%
32	Owner	0.33%
33	Senior Human Resources Manager	0.32%
34	Substitute Teacher	0.32%
35	Corporate Recruiter	0.31%
36	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.31%
37	Specialist	0.31%
38	Administrator	0.3%
39	Account Manager	0.3%
40	Office Administrator	0.29%
41	Senior Director Human Resources	0.27%
42	Human Resources Supervisor	0.27%
43	Principal	0.26%
44	Director	0.26%
45	Benefits Analyst	0.26%
46	Coordinator	0.26%
47	Team Leader	0.25%
48	Internship	0.25%
49	Assistant Manager	0.24%
50	Office Assistant	0.23%
51	Regional Human Resources Manager	0.23%
52	Recruitment Manager	0.21%
53	Senior Human Resources Consultant	0.21%
54	Technical Recruiter	0.21%
55	Senior Human Resources Representative	0.21%
56	Human Resources Lead	0.21%
57	Human Resources Administrative Assistant	0.21%
58	Accountant	0.2%
59	Volunteer	0.2%
60	Business Analyst	0.2%
61	Hris Analyst	0.2%
62	Receptionist	0.2%
63	Executive Administrative Assistant	0.19%
64	Talent Acquisition Manager	0.19%
65	General Manager	0.19%
66	Controller	0.18%
67	Associate	0.18%
68	Store Manager	0.18%
69	Senior Manager	0.18%
70	Senior Technical Recruiter	0.17%
71	President	0.17%
72	Benefits Manager	0.17%
73	Teacher	0.17%
74	Administrative Coordinator	0.17%
75	Project Coordinator	0.17%
76	Senior Consultant	0.16%
77	Data Analyst	0.16%
78	Staffing Coordinator	0.16%
79	Payroll Manager	0.16%
80	Accounting Clerk	0.16%
81	Employee Relations Specialist	0.16%
82	Billing Specialist	0.16%
83	Compensation Analyst	0.16%
84	Analyst	0.16%
85	Human Resource Advisor	0.16%
86	Supervisor	0.16%
87	Account Executive	0.15%
88	Employee Relations Manager	0.15%
89	Staffing Specialist	0.15%
90	Case Manager	0.15%
91	Owner/operator	0.15%
92	Senior Human Resources Specialist	0.14%
93	Accounts Receivable Specialist	0.14%
94	Executive Director	0.14%
95	Bookkeeper	0.14%
96	Legal Assistant	0.14%
97	Adjunct Professor	0.14%
98	Business Manager	0.14%
99	Assistant Vice President	0.14%
100	Senior Administrative Assistant	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former HUMAN RESOURCES COORDINATORS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former HUMAN RESOURCES COORDINATORS

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