Best Jobs For Former Specialists [2023]

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

With so many specialists 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 specialists 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 SPECIALISTS

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 SPECIALISTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Customer Service Representative	2.09%
2	Sales Associate	1.21%
3	Administrative Assistant	1.15%
4	Team Leader	0.68%
5	Manager	0.67%
6	Sales Representative	0.67%
7	Assistant Manager	0.67%
8	Project Manager	0.58%
9	Consultant	0.54%
10	Cashier	0.53%
11	Office Manager	0.51%
12	Server	0.5%
13	Internship	0.49%
14	Supervisor	0.43%
15	Account Manager	0.4%
16	Analyst	0.4%
17	Substitute Teacher	0.37%
18	Operations Manager	0.36%
19	Owner	0.36%
20	Store Manager	0.36%
21	Coordinator	0.36%
22	Account Executive	0.35%
23	Teacher	0.35%
24	Associate	0.34%
25	Technician	0.34%
26	Volunteer	0.34%
27	Security Officer	0.31%
28	Customer Service Trainer	0.3%
29	Case Manager	0.3%
30	Billing Specialist	0.3%
31	Office Assistant	0.29%
32	Medical Assistant	0.27%
33	Human Resources Coordinator	0.26%
34	Administrator	0.25%
35	Receptionist	0.24%
36	Operations Specialist	0.23%
37	Registered Nurse	0.23%
38	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.23%
39	Program Manager	0.23%
40	Technical Support Specialist	0.22%
41	Sales Consultant	0.22%
42	Sales Specialist	0.22%
43	Business Analyst	0.22%
44	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.22%
45	Senior Specialist	0.22%
46	Sales Manager	0.21%
47	Support Specialist	0.21%
48	Instructor	0.2%
49	Service Representative	0.2%
50	Assistant	0.2%
51	Project Coordinator	0.2%
52	Systems Administrator	0.2%
53	Machine Operator	0.19%
54	General Manager	0.19%
55	Family Specialist	0.18%
56	Legal Assistant	0.18%
57	Graphic Designer	0.18%
58	Driver	0.18%
59	Owner/operator	0.18%
60	Representative	0.18%
61	Service Specialist	0.17%
62	Recruiter	0.17%
63	Pharmacist Technician	0.17%
64	Customer Service Specialist	0.17%
65	Systems Engineer	0.17%
66	Maintenance Technician	0.17%
67	Field Service Technician	0.17%
68	Teller	0.17%
69	Data Analyst	0.17%
70	Material Handler	0.16%
71	Research Assistant	0.16%
72	Expert	0.16%
73	Engineer	0.16%
74	Senior Analyst	0.15%
75	Accounting Clerk	0.15%
76	Customer Service Associate	0.15%
77	Finance Analyst	0.15%
78	Assistant Store Manager	0.15%
79	Human Resource Specialist	0.15%
80	Information Technology Specialist	0.14%
81	Licensed Practical Nurse	0.14%
82	Executive Assistant	0.14%
83	Human Resources Manager	0.14%
84	Network Engineer	0.13%
85	Warehouse Associate	0.13%
86	Delivery Driver	0.13%
87	Accountant	0.13%
88	Accounts Receivable Specialist	0.13%
89	Customer Care Representative	0.13%
90	Processor	0.13%
91	Office Administrator	0.13%
92	Paralegal	0.13%
93	Loan Processor	0.13%
94	Program Coordinator	0.13%
95	Network Technician	0.13%
96	Business Development Manager	0.12%
97	Director	0.12%
98	Technical Support Technician	0.12%
99	Operator	0.12%
100	Adjunct Professor	0.12%

Most Common Jobs For Former SPECIALISTS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former SPECIALISTS

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