Does your military security clearance help you with job procurement after you retire from the military? If yes, how?

As a recruiter for SCIS we specifically seek out candidates with active clearances. It is definitely an advantage!

Yes and no. Technically your security clearance is revoked once you retire. However, depending on the job you take after retirement it can be reinstated if you take another government job. If you rake a job in the private sector that requires a security clearance, your previous clearance is not automatically reinstated. You would have to go through all the background checks again. Taking another government job requiring a security clearance, basically your previous clearance is reinstated by the same process that the periodic rechecks you went through while active duty. So it's pretty quick and easy. However, like I said in the private sector you will have to go through the same process that was required when you initially get your clearance for active duty. However, because you previously held the clearance and it was just recently revoked due to retirement, you have a leg up on other candidates applying for the position because the employer knows that you would have a 99% chance that you will be cleared for the clearance level required for the position you are applying for. The other candidates whom have never held a clearance wouldn't have the same virtual guarantee that they would be approved for the required clearance level.

Hope this helps explain it sufficiently for you.

While the indoctrination of your clearance will go away, the eligibility remains. You will more than likely have to submit to another investigation, but it will be easier. The new employer will also know that you have already been granted a clearance before, this makes it easier for a new one.