These Are The 10 Most Exciting Jobs For Former Office Managers

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

With so many office 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 office 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.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Here’s a quick look at the top ten most common jobs for former office managers:

1. Administrative Assistant
2. Customer Service Representative
3. Executive Assistant
4. Sales Associate
5. Operations Manager
6. Manager
7. Bookkeeper
8. Human Resources Coordinator
9. Office Administrator
10. Assistant Manager

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a office manager would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — as a list, they’re kind of boring as hell. They’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former office managers to do.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Here are some of the most interesting jobs of former office managers:

1. Bookkeeper
2. Accounting Clerk
3. Accounts Receivable Specialist
4. Staff Accountant
5. Controller
6. Executive Administrative Assistant
7. Accounting Assistant
8. Human Resources Assistant
9. Operations Director
10. Paralegal

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.

How We Determined the Most Common Jobs of Former Office Managers

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

That’s all for how we did it — below you’ll find the full ranked list of the most common jobs of former office managers.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former Office Managers

Job Title	Rank	%
Administrative Assistant	1	4.28%
Customer Service Representative	2	2.14%
Executive Assistant	3	1.05%
Sales Associate	4	0.9%
Operations Manager	5	0.83%
Manager	6	0.8%
Bookkeeper	7	0.79%
Human Resources Coordinator	8	0.75%
Office Administrator	9	0.75%
Assistant Manager	10	0.74%
Office Assistant	11	0.73%
Accounts Payable Clerk	12	0.72%
Owner	13	0.71%
Billing Specialist	14	0.69%
Human Resources Manager	15	0.66%
Substitute Teacher	16	0.55%
Project Manager	17	0.54%
Store Manager	18	0.53%
Receptionist	19	0.52%
Legal Assistant	20	0.48%
Registered Nurse	21	0.47%
Account Manager	22	0.47%
Accountant	23	0.44%
Cashier	24	0.44%
General Manager	25	0.43%
Sales Representative	26	0.41%
Internship	27	0.4%
Teacher	28	0.39%
Accounting Clerk	29	0.38%
Volunteer	30	0.37%
Accounts Receivable Specialist	31	0.37%
Consultant	32	0.37%
Server	33	0.36%
Administrator	34	0.36%
Medical Assistant	35	0.36%
Property Manager	36	0.35%
Owner/Operator	37	0.35%
Team Leader	38	0.35%
Supervisor	39	0.33%
Project Coordinator	40	0.32%
Staff Accountant	41	0.32%
Customer Service Trainer	42	0.31%
Business Manager	43	0.31%
Specialist	44	0.3%
Controller	45	0.3%
Program Manager	46	0.28%
Executive Administrative Assistant	47	0.27%
Accounting Manager	48	0.25%
Coordinator	49	0.25%
Assistant	50	0.25%
Certified Nursing Assistant	51	0.24%
Secretary	52	0.24%
Sales Manager	53	0.23%
Practice Manager	54	0.23%
Accounting Assistant	55	0.22%
Human Resources Assistant	56	0.22%
Case Manager	57	0.22%
Operations Director	58	0.21%
Paralegal	59	0.21%
Account Executive	60	0.2%
Human Resources Generalist	61	0.2%
Assistant Office Manager	62	0.2%
Front Desk Receptionist	63	0.2%
Associate	64	0.19%
Business Office Manager	65	0.18%
Licensed Practical Nurse	66	0.18%
Human Resource Specialist	67	0.18%
Buyer	68	0.18%
Customer Service Manager	69	0.17%
Payroll Administrator	70	0.17%
Home Health Aid	71	0.17%
Program Coordinator	72	0.17%
Clerk	73	0.17%
Realtor	74	0.17%
Administrative Coordinator	75	0.17%
Medical Receptionist	76	0.17%
Pharmacist Technician	77	0.17%
Personal Assistant	78	0.16%
Director	79	0.16%
Vice President	80	0.16%
Recruiter	81	0.16%
Owner/Manager	82	0.16%
Business Analyst	83	0.16%
Marketing Coordinator	84	0.16%
Payroll Specialist	85	0.15%
Assistant Store Manager	86	0.15%
Teller	87	0.15%
Tax Preparer	88	0.15%
Teacher Assistant	89	0.15%
Administrative Support	90	0.14%
Service Representative	91	0.14%
Dispatcher	92	0.14%
Contracts Administrator	93	0.14%
Graphic Designer	94	0.14%
Marketing Director	95	0.14%
Administrative Manager	96	0.14%
Instructor	97	0.14%
Data Entry Associate	98	0.14%
Office Manager Of Human Resources	99	0.14%
Real Estate Agent	100	0.14%