Best Jobs For Former Sales Consultants [2023]

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

With so many sales consultants 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 sales consultants 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 SALES CONSULTANTS

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 SALES CONSULTANTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Sales Representative	2.4%
2	Account Executive	2.3%
3	Sales Associate	2.07%
4	Customer Service Representative	1.66%
5	Sales Manager	1.56%
6	Account Manager	1.23%
7	Assistant Manager	0.95%
8	Store Manager	0.95%
9	Manager	0.84%
10	Territory Manager	0.75%
11	Senior Sales Representative	0.73%
12	Administrative Assistant	0.69%
13	Owner	0.64%
14	Business Developer	0.6%
15	Operations Manager	0.56%
16	Consultant	0.54%
17	Sales Specialist	0.53%
18	Business Development Manager	0.53%
19	Server	0.52%
20	Director Of Sales	0.49%
21	General Manager	0.47%
22	Vice President	0.44%
23	Office Manager	0.44%
24	Regional Sales Manager	0.42%
25	Retail Sales Consultant	0.42%
26	Cashier	0.42%
27	Project Manager	0.39%
28	Specialist	0.38%
29	Substitute Teacher	0.37%
30	Team Leader	0.34%
31	Internship	0.33%
32	Owner/operator	0.32%
33	Assistant Store Manager	0.31%
34	Supervisor	0.28%
35	Security Officer	0.28%
36	Insurance Agent	0.26%
37	Inside Sales Representative	0.26%
38	Recruiter	0.25%
39	Sales Professional	0.24%
40	Business Manager	0.24%
41	Associate	0.24%
42	Technician	0.24%
43	Senior Account Executive	0.24%
44	Teller	0.24%
45	District Sales Manager	0.24%
46	Teacher	0.24%
47	Internet Sales Manager	0.24%
48	Agent	0.23%
49	Sales/marketing	0.23%
50	Finance Manager	0.23%
51	Solution Specialist	0.22%
52	Marketing Manager	0.22%
53	District Manager	0.22%
54	Customer Service Trainer	0.21%
55	Office Assistant	0.2%
56	Service Advisor	0.2%
57	Receptionist	0.2%
58	Personal Banker	0.2%
59	Sales And Leasing Consultant	0.2%
60	President	0.2%
61	Territory Sales Manager	0.2%
62	Driver	0.2%
63	Marketing Consultant	0.2%
64	Sales Person	0.19%
65	Customer Service Associate	0.19%
66	Property Manager	0.19%
67	Sales Associate And Customer Service	0.19%
68	Account Representative	0.19%
69	Product Specialist	0.18%
70	Volunteer	0.18%
71	Marketing Representative	0.18%
72	Service Representative	0.18%
73	Design Consultant	0.17%
74	Direct Sales Representative	0.17%
75	Chief Executive Officer	0.17%
76	Sales Agent	0.17%
77	Business Analyst	0.16%
78	Coordinator	0.16%
79	Customer Service Specialist	0.16%
80	Marketing Director	0.16%
81	Director	0.16%
82	Service Manager	0.15%
83	Finance Advisor	0.15%
84	Department Manager	0.14%
85	Outside Sales Representative	0.14%
86	Service Consultant	0.14%
87	Regional Manager	0.14%
88	Technical Support Specialist	0.14%
89	Wireless Consultant	0.14%
90	Admissions Representative	0.14%
91	Real Estate Agent	0.14%
92	Merchandiser	0.14%
93	Human Resources Coordinator	0.14%
94	Loan Officer	0.14%
95	Business Consultant	0.13%
96	Sales Account Manager	0.13%
97	Regional Accounts Manager	0.13%
98	Sales Supervisor	0.13%
99	National Account Manager	0.13%
100	Senior Account Manager	0.13%

Most Common Jobs For Former SALES CONSULTANTS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a sales consultant 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 sales consultants to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former SALES CONSULTANTS

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