Best Jobs For Former Senior Consultants [2023]

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

With so many senior 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 senior 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 SENIOR 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 SENIOR CONSULTANTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Consultant	3.04%
2	Project Manager	2.1%
3	Senior Project Manager	1.57%
4	Vice President	1.4%
5	Manager	1.33%
6	Senior Software Engineer	1.3%
7	Principal Consultant	1.23%
8	Business Analyst	1.1%
9	Senior Manager	1.06%
10	Program Manager	1.05%
11	Principal	0.94%
12	Management Consultant	0.89%
13	Solutions Architect	0.79%
14	Director	0.73%
15	Senior Business Analyst	0.61%
16	Associate	0.58%
17	Information Technology Project Manager	0.56%
18	Lead Consultant	0.53%
19	Architect	0.53%
20	President	0.49%
21	Team Leader	0.47%
22	Business Developer	0.47%
23	Lead Technician	0.45%
24	Product Manager	0.45%
25	Information Technology Manager	0.39%
26	Owner	0.39%
27	Chief Executive Officer	0.39%
28	Senior Analyst	0.38%
29	Information Technology Consultant	0.36%
30	Senior Associate	0.34%
31	Operations Manager	0.34%
32	Project Leader	0.33%
33	Senior Systems Engineer	0.33%
34	Director Of Information	0.32%
35	Managing Director	0.31%
36	Senior Architect	0.3%
37	Senior Director	0.3%
38	Chief Finance Officer	0.29%
39	Chief Technology Officer	0.28%
40	Systems Analyst	0.28%
41	Senior Solutions Architect	0.27%
42	Senior Programmer Analyst	0.27%
43	Senior Engineer	0.27%
44	Senior Vice President	0.26%
45	Executive Director	0.26%
46	Operations Director	0.25%
47	Technical Consultant	0.25%
48	Consultant/project Manager	0.25%
49	Marketing Manager	0.25%
50	Founder	0.25%
51	Manager And Consultant	0.24%
52	Senior Management Consultant	0.24%
53	Systems Administrator	0.24%
54	Software Engineer	0.24%
55	Associate Director	0.24%
56	Senior Finance Analyst	0.24%
57	Systems Engineer	0.24%
58	Human Resources Coordinator	0.23%
59	Business Consultant	0.22%
60	Managing Partner	0.22%
61	Finance Manager	0.22%
62	Subject Matter Expert	0.22%
63	Lead Architect	0.21%
64	Data Analyst	0.21%
65	Senior Systems Analyst	0.21%
66	Finance Analyst	0.2%
67	Chief Operating Officer	0.2%
68	Information Technology Director	0.2%
69	Database Administrator	0.2%
70	Contractor/consultant	0.2%
71	Technology Architect	0.2%
72	Recruiter	0.2%
73	Account Executive	0.2%
74	Senior Product Manager	0.19%
75	Partner	0.19%
76	General Manager	0.19%
77	Technical Project Manager	0.19%
78	Adjunct Professor	0.19%
79	Finance Director	0.18%
80	Quality Assurance Lead	0.18%
81	Senior Advisor	0.18%
82	Founder And Chief Executive Officer	0.17%
83	President/chief Executive Officer	0.17%
84	Senior Technical Consultant	0.16%
85	Senior Technician Specialist	0.16%
86	Analyst	0.16%
87	Architect And Developer	0.16%
88	Director Of Strategy	0.16%
89	Information Technology Specialist	0.16%
90	Chief Information Officer	0.16%
91	Program Director	0.16%
92	Co-Founder	0.16%
93	Controller	0.16%
94	Sales Consultant	0.16%
95	Business Development Manager	0.15%
96	Business Analyst-Consultant	0.15%
97	Engagement Manager	0.15%
98	Human Resources Manager	0.15%
99	Account Manager	0.15%
100	Developer/consultant	0.15%

Most Common Jobs For Former SENIOR CONSULTANTS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former SENIOR CONSULTANTS

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