Best Jobs For Former Security Officers [2023]

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

With so many security officers 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 security officers 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 SECURITY OFFICERS

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 SECURITY OFFICERS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Customer Service Representative	2.16%
2	Police Officer	1.44%
3	Security Guard	1.39%
4	Sales Associate	1.27%
5	Security Supervisor	1.25%
6	Correction Officer	1.18%
7	Cashier	0.98%
8	Driver	0.94%
9	Supervisor	0.7%
10	Assistant Manager	0.63%
11	Administrative Assistant	0.61%
12	Technician	0.6%
13	Machine Operator	0.58%
14	Officer	0.56%
15	Security Specialist	0.55%
16	Truck Driver	0.54%
17	Warehouse Associate	0.54%
18	Security	0.53%
19	Material Handler	0.52%
20	Manager	0.48%
21	Sales Representative	0.47%
22	Internship	0.46%
23	Forklift Operator	0.45%
24	Delivery Driver	0.43%
25	Site Supervisor	0.43%
26	Shift Supervisor	0.41%
27	Substitute Teacher	0.41%
28	Public Safety Officer	0.38%
29	Emergency Medical Technician	0.37%
30	Maintenance Technician	0.36%
31	Associate	0.36%
32	Deputy Sheriff	0.35%
33	Transportation Security Officer	0.34%
34	Home Health Aid	0.34%
35	Dispatcher	0.34%
36	Account Manager	0.33%
37	Operations Manager	0.33%
38	Server	0.33%
39	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.32%
40	Team Leader	0.32%
41	Specialist	0.31%
42	Patrol Officer	0.31%
43	Lead Security Officer	0.3%
44	Warehouse Worker	0.29%
45	Security Manager	0.29%
46	Loss Prevention Officer	0.28%
47	Detention Officer	0.28%
48	Custom Protection Officer	0.27%
49	Store Manager	0.27%
50	Owner	0.26%
51	Assets Protection Specialist	0.26%
52	Customer Service Trainer	0.25%
53	Service Technician	0.25%
54	Volunteer	0.25%
55	Office Assistant	0.24%
56	Customer Service Associate	0.24%
57	Receptionist	0.23%
58	Loss Prevention Agent	0.23%
59	Pharmacist Technician	0.23%
60	Package Handler	0.23%
61	Mail Clerk	0.22%
62	Clerk	0.21%
63	Sergeant	0.21%
64	Protective Officer	0.19%
65	Motor Transport Operator	0.19%
66	Merchandiser	0.18%
67	Agent	0.18%
68	Protection Security Officer	0.18%
69	Crew Member	0.18%
70	Case Manager	0.18%
71	Teacher	0.18%
72	Security Site Supervisor	0.18%
73	Owner/operator	0.17%
74	Office Manager	0.17%
75	Production Worker	0.17%
76	Sales Consultant	0.17%
77	Assembler	0.17%
78	Shift Manager	0.17%
79	Call Center Representative	0.16%
80	Investigator	0.16%
81	Operator	0.16%
82	Manufacturing Team Member	0.16%
83	Technical Support Specialist	0.15%
84	General Manager	0.15%
85	Unarmed Security Officer	0.15%
86	Courier	0.15%
87	Service Representative	0.15%
88	Cleaner	0.15%
89	Bouncer	0.15%
90	Program Manager	0.15%
91	Security Agent	0.15%
92	Custodian	0.14%
93	Cook	0.14%
94	Direct Support Professional	0.14%
95	Loss Prevention Associate	0.14%
96	Security Director	0.14%
97	Project Manager	0.14%
98	Asset Protection Associate	0.14%
99	Medical Assistant	0.14%
100	Field Service Technician	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former SECURITY OFFICERS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a security officer 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 security officers to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former SECURITY OFFICERS

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