Step 3 - Transition and Seeking - Hewlett-Packard Alumni

Steps to join HPAlumni:
	1.	Select an email address
	2.	Indicate your situation
	3.	Email your application (you are at this step)
	4.	Join the HPAA networking groups on LinkedIn (optional)
	5.	Select HPAA discussion forums and job post lists

Step 3. Email your application.

In transition. (From WFR notification through several months after your last day.)

To join the HPAA, you send us a short email. This ensures that we have your correct email address.

Please send your application from the email account that you wish to use for your membership.

We use your email address, not your name, to identify you. (With more than 21,000 members, we have many duplicate names.)

You need to send your application in plain text – otherwise, your application will not reach us:

Hotmail and MSN users: If a scissors, clipboard, and other buttons are shown at the top of the message area while you are composing your message, you must temporarily turn off Microsoft's "Rich Text" mode. Click Tools, then click Rich-Text Editor OFF.

Thunderbird users: in the "Compose" window, choose Options > Format > Plain and Rich (HTML) Text.

Do not send as an attachment. Your application will not reach us.

1. To: Copy-and-paste all six of the addresses in yellow into the "TO" field of a new email message.

To:

hp_alumni_membership@yahoogroups.com ;
hp_alumni_association-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ;
hp_alumni_transition-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ;
hp_alumni_benefits-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ;
hp_alumni_career-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ;
hp_alumni_jobs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Be sure to include all six email addresses in the "TO" field of your message.

If your email program won't accept the list of addresses, try using commas instead of semicolons.

2. Subject: Put "apply" and your name in the subject line of your message.

Please use the form of your name that you would use on a name label – i.e. "Bill Hewlett" rather than "William R. Hewlett" – and use upper and lower case.

Subject: apply John Example

3. Message Copy-and-paste the questionnaire in yellow into the body of a new email message. Fill in the answers and send:

1. Name:__

2. Date you started at HP:__

3. Date you left HP or defined future termination date:__

4. If you joined HP via merger, acquisition, or outsourcing,

enter name of acquired company:__

and date you started there:__

Please double-check the years on the previous questions.

5. Last job title:__

6. Last site/office and the country:__

7. Last division or business unit:__

8. How did you hear about the HPAA?__

(Some examples: Saw on someone's LinkedIn profile. A co-worker told me. LinkedIn "Groups You May Like." Searched LinkedIn directory. Searched the Web for...) [ TC04 ]

Before sending the email, please verify that you are sending to all six of the email addresses given in yellow:

hp_alumni_membership@yahoogroups.com

hp_alumni_association-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

hp_alumni_transition-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

hp_alumni_benefits-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

hp_alumni_career-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

hp_alumni_jobs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

By joining, you agree to accept the terms of the HPAA Membership and Posting Agreement.

What happens next?

You will get five automatic confirmation messages from Yahoo with the subject lines:

"Please confirm your request to join hp_alumni_association"

"Please confirm your request to join hp_alumni_transition"

"Please confirm your request to join hp_alumni_benefits"

"Please confirm your request to join hp_alumni_career"

"Please confirm your request to join hp_alumni_jobs"

Check your spam folder if you don't see them in a few minutes.

Send a separate blank reply to each of the five emails entitled "Please confirm your request" – but not the other Yahoo emails.

Do not click on the "Go to the Yahoo Groups site" link in any of the confirmation emails – just send a blank reply to each one. (Otherwise, Yahoo will have you sign up for a Yahoo Account, which you do not need.)

The content of your reply is not read by anyone – the email goes to the Yahoo system, not to us. Not a way to communicate with the HPAA.

ASAP Checklist

Meanwhile, be sure to use the HPAA's "ASAP Checklist." The checklist has advice and mutual help – developed by HPAA members – on the many things you have to do before you lose access to HP's internal systems.

The checklist is public – you don't have to wait for approval of your membership application to use it.

Approval

Our volunteer team will approve your HPAA application – typically within 48 hours after you send the replies. If there is a problem, you will get an email.

Upon approval, you will receive this email: "How to get the most from..."

It is a concise guide on how to benefit from the HPAA's services. Please read it.

Join LinkedIn networking groups: Step 4

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