Best Jobs For Former Human Resources Managers [2023]

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

With so many human resources 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 human resources 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 HUMAN RESOURCES 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 HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGERS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Human Resources Coordinator	10.9%
2	Director Of Human Resources	5.45%
3	Human Resources Generalist	4.17%
4	Human Resources Business Partner	2.74%
5	Human Resources Consultant	2.7%
6	Recruiter	1.63%
7	Senior Human Resources Manager	1.47%
8	Office Manager	1.35%
9	Human Resource Specialist	1.28%
10	Regional Human Resources Manager	1.15%
11	Senior Human Resources Business Partner	1.01%
12	Administrative Assistant	0.94%
13	Senior Human Resources Generalist	0.94%
14	Operations Manager	0.91%
15	Store Manager	0.63%
16	Senior Recruiter	0.6%
17	Consultant	0.58%
18	Manager	0.58%
19	Benefit Specialist	0.57%
20	Human Resources Lead	0.52%
21	Human Resources Assistant	0.48%
22	General Manager	0.48%
23	Controller	0.47%
24	Senior Human Resources Consultant	0.41%
25	Project Manager	0.41%
26	Owner	0.39%
27	Talent Acquisition Manager	0.38%
28	Customer Service Representative	0.36%
29	Human Resources Analyst	0.36%
30	Program Manager	0.35%
31	Employee Relations Manager	0.35%
32	Human Resources Recruiter	0.34%
33	Director	0.32%
34	Operations Director	0.3%
35	Corporate Human Resources Manager	0.3%
36	Accounting Manager	0.29%
37	Volunteer	0.29%
38	Recruitment Manager	0.29%
39	Account Manager	0.29%
40	Vice President	0.29%
41	Senior Consultant	0.28%
42	Assistant Manager	0.28%
43	Sales Associate	0.28%
44	Executive Assistant	0.28%
45	Senior Director Human Resources	0.27%
46	Employee Relations Specialist	0.27%
47	Payroll Specialist	0.26%
48	Human Resource Advisor	0.25%
49	Human Resources Supervisor	0.25%
50	Teacher	0.25%
51	Payroll Manager	0.24%
52	Corporate Recruiter	0.24%
53	Adjunct Professor	0.24%
54	Senior Manager	0.23%
55	Business Manager	0.23%
56	Benefits Manager	0.23%
57	Substitute Teacher	0.22%
58	Training Manager	0.22%
59	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.22%
60	Administrator	0.21%
61	Assistant Store Manager	0.2%
62	Office Administrator	0.2%
63	Payroll Administrator	0.19%
64	Internship	0.19%
65	Technical Recruiter	0.19%
66	Team Leader	0.19%
67	Director Of Human Resources Operations	0.18%
68	Assistant Vice President	0.18%
69	Human Resource Officer	0.18%
70	Partner	0.17%
71	Sales Representative	0.17%
72	Account Executive	0.17%
73	Senior Human Resources Specialist	0.17%
74	Human Resources Contractor	0.17%
75	President	0.17%
76	Senior Technical Recruiter	0.17%
77	Director, Human Resources And Administration	0.17%
78	Executive Director	0.16%
79	Human Resources Trainer	0.16%
80	Adjunct Instructor	0.15%
81	Bookkeeper	0.15%
82	Business Development Manager	0.14%
83	Business Analyst	0.14%
84	Talent Acquisition Consultant	0.14%
85	Business Developer	0.14%
86	Branch Manager	0.14%
87	Principal	0.14%
88	Owner/operator	0.14%
89	Chief Finance Officer	0.14%
90	Accountant	0.14%
91	Sales Manager	0.14%
92	Senior Technician Specialist	0.14%
93	Analyst	0.14%
94	Director Of Talent Acquisition	0.13%
95	Training Developer	0.13%
96	Human Resources Generalist/manager	0.13%
97	Corporate Director, Human Resources	0.13%
98	Human Resources Administration Manager	0.13%
99	Human Resources Administrative Assistant	0.13%
100	Chief Executive Officer	0.13%

Most Common Jobs For Former HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGERS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGERS

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