Best Jobs For Former Supervisors [2023]

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

With so many supervisors 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 supervisors 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 SUPERVISORS

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 SUPERVISORS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Manager	1.95%
2	Customer Service Representative	1.63%
3	Assistant Manager	1.17%
4	Sales Associate	1.11%
5	Operations Manager	0.99%
6	Administrative Assistant	0.89%
7	Internship	0.69%
8	Cashier	0.64%
9	Owner	0.64%
10	Server	0.59%
11	Office Manager	0.55%
12	Project Manager	0.55%
13	Store Manager	0.53%
14	Team Leader	0.53%
15	Security Officer	0.52%
16	General Manager	0.49%
17	Registered Nurse	0.45%
18	Technician	0.43%
19	Sales Representative	0.43%
20	Substitute Teacher	0.42%
21	Teacher	0.41%
22	Operation Supervisor	0.4%
23	Production Supervisor	0.4%
24	Consultant	0.39%
25	Program Manager	0.39%
26	Maintenance Technician	0.38%
27	Machine Operator	0.38%
28	Specialist	0.36%
29	Driver	0.35%
30	Volunteer	0.33%
31	Coordinator	0.32%
32	Account Manager	0.31%
33	Customer Service Trainer	0.28%
34	Owner/operator	0.27%
35	Assistant Store Manager	0.26%
36	Teller	0.26%
37	Associate	0.26%
38	Case Manager	0.25%
39	Director	0.25%
40	Operator	0.24%
41	Office Assistant	0.22%
42	Material Handler	0.22%
43	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.21%
44	Shift Supervisor	0.21%
45	Account Executive	0.19%
46	Sales Manager	0.19%
47	Instructor	0.19%
48	Forklift Operator	0.19%
49	Receptionist	0.19%
50	Service Manager	0.19%
51	Pharmacist Technician	0.18%
52	Production Manager	0.18%
53	Warehouse Associate	0.18%
54	Human Resources Coordinator	0.18%
55	Vice President	0.17%
56	Service Technician	0.17%
57	Sales Consultant	0.17%
58	Superintendent	0.17%
59	Security Guard	0.17%
60	Cook	0.17%
61	Maintenance Supervisor	0.16%
62	Medical Assistant	0.16%
63	Foreman	0.16%
64	Delivery Driver	0.16%
65	Welder	0.16%
66	Department Manager	0.15%
67	Research Assistant	0.15%
68	Business Analyst	0.15%
69	Billing Specialist	0.15%
70	Assistant	0.15%
71	Crew Member	0.15%
72	Clerk	0.15%
73	Warehouse Worker	0.15%
74	Human Resources Manager	0.14%
75	Warehouse Manager	0.14%
76	Mechanic	0.14%
77	Shift Manager	0.14%
78	Home Health Aid	0.13%
79	Bartender	0.13%
80	Graphic Designer	0.13%
81	Truck Driver	0.13%
82	Warehouse Supervisor	0.13%
83	Recruiter	0.13%
84	Administrator	0.13%
85	Technical Support Specialist	0.13%
86	Licensed Practical Nurse	0.13%
87	Senior Technician Specialist	0.13%
88	Operations Director	0.12%
89	Laboratory Technician	0.12%
90	Teacher Assistant	0.12%
91	Senior Supervisor	0.12%
92	Correction Officer	0.12%
93	Customer Service Manager	0.12%
94	Property Manager	0.12%
95	Field Service Technician	0.12%
96	Area Manager	0.12%
97	Equipment Operator	0.12%
98	Program Director	0.12%
99	Police Officer	0.12%
100	Teaching Assistant	0.12%

Most Common Jobs For Former SUPERVISORS

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

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former SUPERVISORS

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