Best Jobs For Former Receptionists [2023]

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

With so many receptionists 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 receptionists 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 RECEPTIONISTS

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 RECEPTIONISTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Administrative Assistant	5.09%
2	Customer Service Representative	4.43%
3	Sales Associate	3.35%
4	Cashier	2.49%
5	Office Manager	1.81%
6	Office Assistant	1.56%
7	Server	1.47%
8	Internship	0.97%
9	Assistant Manager	0.96%
10	Medical Assistant	0.76%
11	Manager	0.71%
12	Teacher	0.68%
13	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.64%
14	Volunteer	0.64%
15	Customer Service Trainer	0.62%
16	Billing Specialist	0.59%
17	Legal Assistant	0.57%
18	Teller	0.56%
19	Sales Representative	0.54%
20	Substitute Teacher	0.54%
21	Front Desk Receptionist	0.52%
22	Pharmacist Technician	0.47%
23	Teacher Assistant	0.44%
24	Human Resources Coordinator	0.39%
25	Secretary	0.38%
26	Executive Assistant	0.37%
27	Office Administrator	0.37%
28	Home Health Aid	0.36%
29	Waitress	0.36%
30	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.36%
31	Assistant	0.36%
32	Medical Receptionist	0.35%
33	Hostess	0.35%
34	Supervisor	0.34%
35	Associate	0.33%
36	Data Entry Associate	0.33%
37	Nanny	0.32%
38	Data Entry Clerk	0.31%
39	Clerk	0.31%
40	Human Resources Assistant	0.3%
41	Preschool Teacher	0.29%
42	Registered Nurse	0.29%
43	Store Manager	0.28%
44	Customer Service Associate	0.28%
45	Specialist	0.28%
46	Personal Assistant	0.27%
47	Barista	0.24%
48	Coordinator	0.24%
49	Crew Member	0.24%
50	Security Officer	0.24%
51	Medical Records Clerk	0.23%
52	Server And Hostess	0.22%
53	Front Desk Coordinator	0.22%
54	Accounts Receivable Specialist	0.21%
55	Owner	0.21%
56	Service Representative	0.21%
57	Case Manager	0.2%
58	Patient Service Representative	0.2%
59	Bartender	0.2%
60	Call Center Representative	0.19%
61	Dental Assistant	0.19%
62	Accounting Clerk	0.19%
63	Technician	0.19%
64	Bartender Server	0.19%
65	Representative	0.18%
66	Unit Secretary	0.18%
67	Paralegal	0.17%
68	Licensed Practical Nurse	0.17%
69	Team Leader	0.17%
70	Legal Secretary	0.16%
71	Patient Access Representative	0.16%
72	Sales Associate And Customer Service	0.16%
73	Front Desk Clerk	0.16%
74	Receptionist Secretary	0.16%
75	Administrator	0.16%
76	File Clerk	0.16%
77	Consultant	0.15%
78	Bank Teller	0.15%
79	Sales Associate And Cashier	0.15%
80	Research Assistant	0.15%
81	Tutor	0.15%
82	Account Manager	0.15%
83	Customer Service Specialist	0.15%
84	Ship Worker	0.14%
85	Bookkeeper	0.14%
86	Operations Manager	0.14%
87	Office Clerk	0.14%
88	Medical Assistant Externship	0.14%
89	Accounting Assistant	0.13%
90	Graphic Designer	0.13%
91	Beauty Advisor	0.13%
92	Processor	0.13%
93	Agent	0.13%
94	Teacher Aide	0.13%
95	Dispatcher	0.13%
96	Sales Assistant	0.13%
97	Student Assistant	0.13%
98	Veterinary Technician	0.13%
99	Customer Care Representative	0.12%
100	Service Coordinator	0.12%

Most Common Jobs For Former RECEPTIONISTS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former RECEPTIONISTS

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