Best Jobs For Former Presidents [2023]

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

With so many presidents 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 presidents 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 PRESIDENTS

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 PRESIDENTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Vice President	2.0%
2	Internship	1.99%
3	Consultant	1.28%
4	Chief Executive Officer	1.05%
5	Research Assistant	0.97%
6	Sales Associate	0.96%
7	Owner	0.95%
8	Volunteer	0.86%
9	General Manager	0.84%
10	Project Manager	0.82%
11	Principal	0.74%
12	President/chief Executive Officer	0.73%
13	Manager	0.69%
14	Chief Operating Officer	0.61%
15	Executive Director	0.56%
16	Director	0.56%
17	Business Developer	0.52%
18	Account Executive	0.51%
19	Administrative Assistant	0.47%
20	President/owner	0.45%
21	Senior Vice President	0.45%
22	Managing Director	0.44%
23	Teacher	0.43%
24	Customer Service Representative	0.43%
25	Chief Finance Officer	0.42%
26	Sales Representative	0.42%
27	Sales Manager	0.42%
28	Marketing Internship	0.41%
29	Adjunct Professor	0.38%
30	Operations Manager	0.38%
31	Server	0.38%
32	Founder	0.35%
33	Account Manager	0.35%
34	Substitute Teacher	0.35%
35	Partner	0.35%
36	Teaching Assistant	0.34%
37	Assistant Manager	0.34%
38	Sales/marketing	0.34%
39	Managing Partner	0.33%
40	Program Manager	0.32%
41	Marketing Director	0.32%
42	Office Manager	0.32%
43	President And Founder	0.31%
44	Cashier	0.31%
45	Board Member	0.3%
46	Chairperson	0.29%
47	Senior Project Manager	0.29%
48	Associate	0.29%
49	Executive Vice President	0.28%
50	Tutor	0.27%
51	Graduate Assistant	0.27%
52	Owner/operator	0.26%
53	Co-Founder	0.26%
54	Operations Director	0.25%
55	Director Of Sales	0.25%
56	Instructor	0.25%
57	Vice President, Business Development	0.24%
58	Graduate Research Assistant	0.23%
59	President Of Operations	0.23%
60	Leader	0.22%
61	Sales Consultant	0.22%
62	Team Leader	0.21%
63	Office Assistant	0.21%
64	Registered Nurse	0.21%
65	Student Assistant	0.21%
66	Board Of Directors Member	0.2%
67	Marketing Manager	0.2%
68	Regional Sales Manager	0.19%
69	Store Manager	0.19%
70	Senior Consultant	0.19%
71	Managing Member	0.18%
72	Supervisor	0.18%
73	Specialist	0.17%
74	Analyst	0.17%
75	Business Development Manager	0.17%
76	Program Director	0.17%
77	Management Consultant	0.16%
78	Human Resources Coordinator	0.16%
79	Business Consultant	0.16%
80	Regional Director	0.16%
81	Ambassador	0.16%
82	Senior Manager	0.15%
83	Coordinator	0.15%
84	Adjunct Faculty	0.15%
85	Communications Director	0.15%
86	Treasurer	0.15%
87	Vice President & General Manager	0.14%
88	Founder And Chief Executive Officer	0.14%
89	Senior Technician Specialist	0.14%
90	Owner/manager	0.14%
91	Principal Consultant	0.14%
92	Editor	0.14%
93	President & Chief Operating Officer	0.14%
94	Finance Advisor	0.14%
95	Assistant	0.14%
96	Social Media Internship	0.13%
97	Marketing Consultant	0.13%
98	Realtor	0.13%
99	Real Estate Agent	0.13%
100	Attorney	0.13%

Most Common Jobs For Former PRESIDENTS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a president 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 presidents to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former PRESIDENTS

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