Best Jobs For Former Vice Presidents [2023]

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

With so many vice presidents 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 vice presidents 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 VICE PRESIDENTS

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 VICE PRESIDENTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	President	2.66%
2	Chief Finance Officer	1.96%
3	Consultant	1.95%
4	Senior Vice President	1.86%
5	Principal	1.69%
6	Managing Director	1.1%
7	Chief Executive Officer	1.04%
8	Owner	1.02%
9	Director	0.95%
10	Director Of Sales	0.9%
11	Internship	0.9%
12	General Manager	0.89%
13	Business Developer	0.88%
14	Chief Operating Officer	0.8%
15	Project Manager	0.71%
16	Vice President, Business Development	0.7%
17	Executive Director	0.68%
18	Sales/marketing	0.64%
19	President/chief Executive Officer	0.63%
20	Sales Associate	0.57%
21	Marketing Director	0.54%
22	President/owner	0.53%
23	Manager	0.49%
24	Account Executive	0.48%
25	Executive Vice President	0.46%
26	President Of Operations	0.44%
27	Senior Director	0.44%
28	Volunteer	0.44%
29	Managing Partner	0.43%
30	Sales Manager	0.43%
31	Research Assistant	0.42%
32	Controller	0.42%
33	Founder	0.41%
34	Operations Manager	0.4%
35	Partner	0.4%
36	Senior Consultant	0.4%
37	Vice President And Manager	0.39%
38	Operations Director	0.38%
39	Senior Project Manager	0.38%
40	Chief Marketing Officer	0.37%
41	Principal Consultant	0.37%
42	President And Founder	0.35%
43	Assistant Vice President	0.34%
44	Sales Representative	0.33%
45	Management Consultant	0.33%
46	Vice President & General Manager	0.32%
47	Senior Manager	0.32%
48	Program Manager	0.32%
49	Finance Director	0.31%
50	Business Development Manager	0.3%
51	Marketing Internship	0.3%
52	Administrative Assistant	0.29%
53	Account Manager	0.29%
54	Human Resources Coordinator	0.28%
55	Marketing Consultant	0.28%
56	Regional Vice President	0.28%
57	Co-Founder	0.28%
58	Regional Sales Manager	0.27%
59	Business Consultant	0.25%
60	Finance Advisor	0.25%
61	Customer Service Representative	0.24%
62	Sales Consultant	0.23%
63	Owner/operator	0.23%
64	Office Manager	0.22%
65	Associate	0.22%
66	Adjunct Professor	0.22%
67	Chief Information Officer	0.21%
68	Marketing Manager	0.21%
69	Founder And Chief Executive Officer	0.21%
70	Director Of Sales And Marketing	0.21%
71	Assistant Manager	0.2%
72	Vice President, Strategy	0.2%
73	Senior Vice President, Sales	0.19%
74	Finance Consultant	0.19%
75	Team Leader	0.18%
76	National Sales Manager	0.18%
77	Teacher	0.18%
78	Server	0.18%
79	Regional Director	0.18%
80	Business Development Consultant	0.18%
81	President & Chief Operating Officer	0.17%
82	Teaching Assistant	0.17%
83	Vice President Of Information Technology	0.17%
84	Board Member	0.16%
85	Senior Vice President Of Marketing	0.16%
86	Cashier	0.16%
87	Senior Vice President-Operations	0.16%
88	Substitute Teacher	0.16%
89	Vice President Product Development	0.16%
90	Development Director	0.15%
91	Managing Member	0.15%
92	Senior Account Executive	0.15%
93	Regional Manager	0.15%
94	Product Manager	0.15%
95	Leader	0.15%
96	Corporate Controller	0.15%
97	Business Analyst	0.14%
98	Attorney	0.14%
99	Global Director	0.14%
100	Vice President Of Sales & Business Development	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former VICE PRESIDENTS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a vice president 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 vice presidents to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former VICE PRESIDENTS

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