Best Jobs For Former Real Estate Agents [2022]

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

With so many real estate agents 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 real estate agents 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.

The full list of those jobs can be found below.

Here’s a quick look at the top ten most common jobs for former real estate agents :

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a real estate agent would have or being a stepping stone to a different career.

Here’s the thing about these jobs though — as a list, they’re kind of boring as hell. They’re pretty much exactly what you’d expect a lot of former real estate agents to do.

But given that there are some very surprising and interesting items on this list, we’ve decided to highlight a few of those instead.

Here are some of the most interesting jobs of former real estate agents:

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.

How We Determined the Most Common Jobs of Former REAL ESTATE AGENTS

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

That’s all for how we did it — below you’ll find the full ranked list of the most common jobs of former real estate agents.

Detailed Ranking of the Most Common Jobs of Former REAL ESTATE AGENTS

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Sales Associate	1.68%
2	Administrative Assistant	1.57%
3	Customer Service Representative	1.28%
4	Office Manager	1.19%
5	Sales Representative	1.19%
6	Account Executive	0.96%
7	Property Manager	0.93%
8	Owner	0.91%
9	Substitute Teacher	0.91%
10	Manager	0.85%
11	Real Estate Broker	0.8%
12	Account Manager	0.69%
13	Teacher	0.65%
14	Assistant Manager	0.65%
15	General Manager	0.63%
16	Realtor	0.58%
17	Operations Manager	0.58%
18	Sales Manager	0.58%
19	Consultant	0.55%
20	Executive Assistant	0.52%
21	Project Manager	0.48%
22	Owner/operator	0.48%
23	Store Manager	0.46%
24	Volunteer	0.44%
25	Business Developer	0.43%
26	Sales Consultant	0.43%
27	Leasing Consultant	0.43%
28	Server	0.42%
29	Insurance Agent	0.39%
30	Associate	0.37%
31	Broker	0.37%
32	Agent	0.36%
33	Specialist	0.36%
34	Registered Nurse	0.36%
35	Cashier	0.34%
36	Office Administrator	0.32%
37	Team Leader	0.32%
38	Marketing Director	0.3%
39	Supervisor	0.3%
40	Loan Officer	0.29%
41	Business Development Manager	0.29%
42	Internship	0.28%
43	Director Of Sales	0.27%
44	Recruiter	0.27%
45	Real Estate Consultant	0.27%
46	Sales Agent	0.25%
47	Business Manager	0.25%
48	Marketing Manager	0.25%
49	Office Assistant	0.24%
50	Sales/marketing	0.24%
51	Driver	0.23%
52	Customer Service Associate	0.23%
53	Chief Executive Officer	0.23%
54	Coordinator	0.23%
55	Paralegal	0.22%
56	Sales Person	0.22%
57	Security Officer	0.22%
58	Marketing Consultant	0.2%
59	Owner/manager	0.2%
60	Transaction Coordinator	0.2%
61	Inside Sales Representative	0.2%
62	Personal Banker	0.2%
63	Legal Assistant	0.2%
64	Bartender	0.19%
65	Licensed Practical Nurse	0.19%
66	Finance Advisor	0.19%
67	Customer Service Trainer	0.19%
68	Human Resources Coordinator	0.19%
69	Business Analyst	0.19%
70	Vice President	0.19%
71	President	0.18%
72	Principal	0.18%
73	Analyst	0.18%
74	Receptionist	0.18%
75	Instructor	0.18%
76	Asset Manager	0.18%
77	Sales Associate And Customer Service	0.17%
78	Tax Preparer	0.17%
79	Technical Support Specialist	0.17%
80	Project Coordinator	0.17%
81	Leasing Agent	0.17%
82	Associate Broker	0.17%
83	Business Owner	0.15%
84	Life Insurance Agent	0.15%
85	Operations Specialist	0.15%
86	Administrator	0.15%
87	Case Manager	0.15%
88	Territory Manager	0.15%
89	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.15%
90	Customer Service Agent	0.15%
91	Marketing Coordinator	0.14%
92	Real Estate Assistant	0.14%
93	Service Manager	0.14%
94	Communications Manager	0.14%
95	Director	0.14%
96	Accounting Assistant	0.14%
97	Assistant	0.14%
98	District Manager	0.14%
99	Bookkeeper	0.14%
100	Sales Specialist	0.14%

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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