Best Jobs For Former Warehouse Associates [2023]

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

With so many warehouse associates 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 warehouse associates 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 WAREHOUSE ASSOCIATES

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 WAREHOUSE ASSOCIATES

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Customer Service Representative	2.83%
2	Sales Associate	2.22%
3	Material Handler	2.08%
4	Forklift Operator	1.94%
5	Warehouse Worker	1.92%
6	Machine Operator	1.88%
7	Cashier	1.49%
8	Security Officer	1.1%
9	Associate	1.06%
10	Order Selector	0.78%
11	Driver	0.75%
12	Delivery Driver	0.7%
13	Assistant Manager	0.64%
14	Shipping And Receiving Clerk	0.52%
15	Production Worker	0.5%
16	Team Leader	0.49%
17	Warehouse Manager	0.48%
18	Sales Representative	0.48%
19	Server	0.47%
20	Crew Member	0.46%
21	Package Handler	0.46%
22	Fulfillment Associate	0.43%
23	Technician	0.43%
24	Production Associate	0.43%
25	Assembler	0.43%
26	Supervisor	0.42%
27	Internship	0.4%
28	Customer Service Trainer	0.4%
29	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.39%
30	Sorter	0.39%
31	Process Assistant	0.37%
32	Administrative Assistant	0.37%
33	Warehouse Supervisor	0.37%
34	Manager	0.36%
35	Operator	0.36%
36	Security Guard	0.36%
37	Customer Service Associate	0.35%
38	Merchandiser	0.34%
39	Maintenance Technician	0.33%
40	Forklift Driver	0.32%
41	Truck Driver	0.32%
42	Shipping Clerk	0.32%
43	Picker	0.32%
44	Specialist	0.29%
45	Office Assistant	0.29%
46	Shipping And Receiving Coordinator	0.27%
47	Warehouse Lead	0.26%
48	Warehouse Clerk	0.26%
49	Pharmacist Technician	0.25%
50	Receptionist	0.25%
51	Picker And Packer	0.24%
52	Volunteer	0.24%
53	Assistant	0.24%
54	Receiving Clerk	0.24%
55	Mail Clerk	0.24%
56	Cook	0.23%
57	Call Center Representative	0.23%
58	Service Technician	0.23%
59	Line Cook	0.22%
60	Clerk	0.22%
61	Home Health Aid	0.22%
62	Inventory Control Specialist	0.22%
63	Cleaner	0.22%
64	Owner	0.21%
65	Packer	0.21%
66	Operations Manager	0.21%
67	Store Manager	0.21%
68	Order Picker	0.2%
69	Warehouse Machine Operator	0.2%
70	Receiving Associate	0.2%
71	Dock Worker	0.19%
72	Operation Supervisor	0.19%
73	Substitute Teacher	0.19%
74	Medical Assistant	0.18%
75	Logistics Specialist	0.18%
76	Stock Clerk	0.18%
77	Owner/operator	0.18%
78	Stower	0.18%
79	Manufacturing Team Member	0.18%
80	Shift Manager	0.18%
81	Shift Supervisor	0.18%
82	Welder	0.18%
83	Inventory Specialist	0.17%
84	Correction Officer	0.17%
85	Security	0.17%
86	Janitor	0.17%
87	Ship Worker	0.17%
88	Processor	0.16%
89	Prep Cook	0.16%
90	Stocker	0.16%
91	Warehouse Coordinator	0.16%
92	Inventory Controller	0.16%
93	Lift Operator	0.16%
94	In-Stock Associate	0.15%
95	Equipment Operator	0.15%
96	Installation Technician	0.15%
97	Sheet Metal Mechanic	0.15%
98	Material Handler/forklift Operator	0.15%
99	Account Manager	0.14%
100	Dispatcher	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former WAREHOUSE ASSOCIATES

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a warehouse associate 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 warehouse associates to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former WAREHOUSE ASSOCIATES

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