- Based on 1628 Jobtrees users who were a Chief Executive Officer in their career, on average, they have 4.85 years of experience and 2 jobs prior to this one. They have spent a significant amount of time in this job before moving on 10.5 years on average and earn $255K per year on average in this more senior role.
- 10% of Jobtrees users moved to another job with this same title in their next career step. The most common career steps after Chief Executive Officer are President, Founder and Chief Operating Officer. While President isn't from the Executive job family, there are common paths within the same discipline as Chief Executive Officer shown by Founder also being a next career step Jobtrees users are taking.
- If you are looking for more ideas on potential career paths from this job, you should also consider Business Owner as they commonly lead to Chief Executive Officer as well. Find more insights below about this specific career path based on our Jobtrees users' experience.
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- The most common career steps to get to Chief Executive Officer are President, Business Owner and Founder based on actual career paths reported to Jobtrees.
- President, the most common step before Chief Executive Officer, is a more senior role which is common to see in career paths. This is a natural and common career progression as titles aren't synonymous across companies so a more senior title doesn't always mean higher pay and larger scope. For Chief Executive Officer, this is an indication that you should focus more on the scope of the role than the specific title when thinking about building a path to Chief Executive Officer.
- While President is the most common, there is no specific role leading to Chief Executive Officer that is an overwhelmingly common path.
- Another characteristic of the Chief Executive Officer career path is that experience within the same job family as this role isn't common and as a result likely not necessary.
- This shows there are many potential paths to becoming a Chief Executive Officer so focusing on translatable skills is likely more important than a specific role.
- This is a Senior role meaning if you don’t have significant work experience and likely also experience in a closely related field, you need to start more than one or two steps away from this role in planning your path. Consider president or business owner as these are the most popular career starting points for Jobtrees users that led to chief executive officer. For a quicker path to this senior role title, consider looking at smaller companies as they have less layers to get to these more senior titles. The scope of the role and likely the pay though will still likely compare more similarly to a less experienced role title at a larger company. This is partly why you see some unexpected experience level titles leading to this role.
- While President isn't from the same job family as Chief Executive Officer, Executive, it can help to have direct experience in this discipline shown by Business Owner also being a common career path to Chief Executive Officer.
- If you are looking for more potential career paths to Chief Executive Officer,you should also consider Chief Operating Officer as they commonly lead to Chief Executive Officer as well.
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- The most common degrees or certifications earned by Jobtrees users on the path to become Chief Executive Officer are Master Of Business Administration (mba), Bachelor Of Arts (b.a.) In Physics Education, and Master Of Business Administration (m.b.a) In Finance. There may be other specific certification requirements to land a job with this role, so please make sure to check local regulations as well.
- Career paths aren't linear with people often returning to a prior role which is what you see with President being on the path to and from Chief Executive Officer. This is common when people move companies where the title is the same as a past one but the scope may be different but also is commonly driven by them choosing to return to a function they fit well with.
- Chief Executive Officer is part of the Executive job family which has a limited number of unique role types (31) within that discipline. Choosing to pursue a role within this family likely will mean that you will need to look outside of your discipline to find new roles and so should focus on related skills as part of that search.
- Other common titles that have similar job requirements and career paths as Chief Executive Officer are C.e.o, Ceo, Ceo Founder, Ceo, President, Co-ceo, Cofounder And Ceo, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Founder Ceo, Group Ceo, Owner & Ceo, Owner And Ceo, President Ceo.