What is your next career move after a clearance denial?

Hi everyone,

Currently going through the clearance process. I don’t have any reason to believe I’ll be denied, but everything I’ve seen so far tells me you can never be too confident.

For those who have been denied, what did you do after your clearance was denied/revoked? Any advice for other applications you should be sending out in the meantime?

For any investigators out there, any advice for what anyone can do during the process besides ‘Just be patient and honest’? Would collecting personnel files from previous jobs be viewed as helpful? Should I tell my references they may be contacted or will that be viewed as tainting them?