Best Jobs For Former Executive Assistants [2022]

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

With so many executive assistants 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 executive assistants 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 EXECUTIVE ASSISTANTS

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 EXECUTIVE ASSISTANTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Administrative Assistant	7.26%
2	Office Manager	3.15%
3	Customer Service Representative	1.04%
4	Senior Administrative Assistant	0.9%
5	Human Resources Coordinator	0.88%
6	Executive Administrative Assistant	0.84%
7	Project Manager	0.79%
8	Sales Associate	0.77%
9	Executive Assistant/office Manager	0.77%
10	Legal Assistant	0.77%
11	Executive Assistant To Chief Executive Officer	0.76%
12	Project Coordinator	0.75%
13	Office Administrator	0.75%
14	Senior Executive Assistant	0.69%
15	Operations Manager	0.68%
16	Manager	0.53%
17	Human Resources Manager	0.53%
18	Assistant Manager	0.52%
19	Marketing Coordinator	0.49%
20	Office Assistant	0.47%
21	Internship	0.43%
22	Executive Assistant To President	0.43%
23	Owner	0.42%
24	Consultant	0.42%
25	Account Executive	0.4%
26	Program Manager	0.4%
27	Administrative Coordinator	0.4%
28	Account Manager	0.4%
29	Human Resources Assistant	0.4%
30	Coordinator	0.37%
31	Server	0.34%
32	Marketing Manager	0.33%
33	Administrator	0.33%
34	Teacher	0.33%
35	Assistant To Vice President	0.33%
36	Substitute Teacher	0.32%
37	Volunteer	0.32%
38	Receptionist	0.32%
39	Human Resources Generalist	0.32%
40	Assistant	0.31%
41	Recruiter	0.31%
42	Program Coordinator	0.31%
43	Associate	0.29%
44	Personal Assistant	0.29%
45	Sales Representative	0.29%
46	Business Analyst	0.28%
47	Marketing Assistant	0.27%
48	Event Coordinator	0.25%
49	Store Manager	0.25%
50	General Manager	0.25%
51	Accounts Payable Clerk	0.25%
52	Executive Assistant To President/chief Executive Officer	0.25%
53	Paralegal	0.24%
54	Administrative Support	0.23%
55	Property Manager	0.23%
56	Executive/personal Assistant	0.23%
57	Administrative Specialist	0.23%
58	Human Resource Specialist	0.22%
59	Executive Assistant To Chief Finance Officer	0.22%
60	Secretary	0.22%
61	Executive Administrator	0.22%
62	Senior Vice President	0.22%
63	Executive Assistant/human Resources	0.21%
64	Administrative Manager	0.21%
65	Billing Specialist	0.21%
66	Marketing Director	0.2%
67	Cashier	0.2%
68	Executive Assistant To Chief Operating Officer	0.2%
69	Legal Secretary	0.19%
70	Sales Manager	0.18%
71	Business Manager	0.18%
72	Registered Nurse	0.18%
73	Operations Coordinator	0.18%
74	Writer And Editor	0.18%
75	Medical Assistant	0.18%
76	Business Developer	0.18%
77	Case Manager	0.17%
78	Research Assistant	0.17%
79	Vice President	0.17%
80	Analyst	0.17%
81	Data Analyst	0.17%
82	Marketing Specialist	0.16%
83	Team Leader	0.16%
84	Coordinator/executive Assistant	0.16%
85	Assistant Office Manager	0.16%
86	Event Manager	0.16%
87	Supervisor	0.16%
88	Owner/operator	0.16%
89	Chief Executive Officer	0.15%
90	Social Media Manager	0.15%
91	Contracts Administrator	0.15%
92	Program Analyst	0.15%
93	Assistant To Executive Producer	0.15%
94	Recruiting Coordinator	0.14%
95	Executive Director	0.14%
96	Program Assistant	0.14%
97	Communications Manager	0.14%
98	Specialist	0.14%
99	Sales Administrator	0.14%
100	Bookkeeper	0.14%

Most Common Jobs For Former EXECUTIVE ASSISTANTS

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a executive assistant 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 executive assistants to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former EXECUTIVE ASSISTANTS

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