Best Jobs For Former Sales Representatives [2022]

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

With so many sales representatives 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 sales representatives 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 SALES REPRESENTATIVES

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 SALES REPRESENTATIVES

Rank	Job Title	%
1	Customer Service Representative	3.05%
2	Sales Associate	2.13%
3	Account Executive	1.95%
4	Account Manager	1.48%
5	Sales Manager	1.34%
6	Sales Consultant	1.1%
7	Cashier	0.98%
8	Assistant Manager	0.87%
9	Manager	0.87%
10	Administrative Assistant	0.84%
11	Territory Manager	0.8%
12	Server	0.8%
13	Store Manager	0.76%
14	Owner	0.69%
15	Senior Sales Representative	0.58%
16	Regional Sales Manager	0.58%
17	Internship	0.56%
18	General Manager	0.51%
19	Office Manager	0.5%
20	Business Developer	0.49%
21	Sales Specialist	0.47%
22	Project Manager	0.45%
23	District Sales Manager	0.44%
24	Operations Manager	0.43%
25	Business Development Manager	0.39%
26	Specialist	0.37%
27	Teacher	0.37%
28	Consultant	0.36%
29	Vice President	0.35%
30	Director Of Sales	0.35%
31	Substitute Teacher	0.34%
32	Security Officer	0.33%
33	Owner/operator	0.33%
34	Customer Service Trainer	0.32%
35	Inside Sales Representative	0.31%
36	Specialty Sales Representative	0.29%
37	Supervisor	0.29%
38	Volunteer	0.29%
39	Receptionist	0.29%
40	Representative	0.28%
41	Territory Sales Manager	0.28%
42	Team Leader	0.28%
43	Outside Sales Representative	0.27%
44	Sales/marketing	0.26%
45	District Manager	0.25%
46	Office Assistant	0.25%
47	Technician	0.25%
48	Teller	0.24%
49	Marketing Manager	0.24%
50	Driver	0.24%
51	Service Representative	0.24%
52	Associate	0.23%
53	Pharmaceutical Sales Representative	0.22%
54	Agent	0.22%
55	Crew Member	0.22%
56	President	0.2%
57	Sales Associate And Customer Service	0.2%
58	Account Representative	0.2%
59	Insurance Agent	0.19%
60	Marketing Director	0.19%
61	Marketing Representative	0.19%
62	Pharmacist Technician	0.19%
63	Waitress	0.18%
64	Certified Nursing Assistant	0.18%
65	Sales Agent	0.18%
66	Marketing Internship	0.18%
67	Sales Professional	0.18%
68	Bartender	0.17%
69	Branch Manager	0.17%
70	Warehouse Associate	0.17%
71	Machine Operator	0.17%
72	Senior Account Executive	0.16%
73	Direct Sales Representative	0.16%
74	Sales Person	0.16%
75	Regional Manager	0.16%
76	Recruiter	0.16%
77	Product Manager	0.16%
78	Merchandiser	0.16%
79	National Account Manager	0.16%
80	Registered Nurse	0.16%
81	Sales Account Manager	0.15%
82	Delivery Driver	0.15%
83	Retail Sales Consultant	0.15%
84	Medical Assistant	0.15%
85	Technical Support Specialist	0.15%
86	Key Account Manager	0.15%
87	Customer Service Associate	0.15%
88	Medical Sales Representative	0.15%
89	Chief Executive Officer	0.14%
90	Finance Advisor	0.14%
91	Property Manager	0.14%
92	Personal Banker	0.14%
93	Technical Support Technician	0.13%
94	Marketing Coordinator	0.13%
95	National Sales Manager	0.13%
96	Billing Specialist	0.13%
97	Customer Care Representative	0.13%
98	Bartender Server	0.13%
99	Senior Account Manager	0.13%
100	Coordinator	0.13%

Most Common Jobs For Former SALES REPRESENTATIVES

These are all good jobs, all of them either utilizing some skill that a sales representative 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 sales representatives to do.

How We Determined the Best Jobs of Former SALES REPRESENTATIVES

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