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The HPAA uses three industry-standard services Yahoo Groups, LinkedIn, and a MediaWiki site.

Each of these industry-standard services requires a separate login. You must use the same email address with all of the HPAA services.

With more than 15,000 members, we have many duplicate names. Your email address identifies you for all HPAA matters – including allowing you to join the optional job-post list, online forums, and LinkedIn networking group.  

To determine the email address for your membership, check where your twice-a-month issues of "HP Alumni News" are sent.

Please allow 48 hours for our volunteers to complete your requests. 


Membership and "HP Alumni News"

To receive HPAA services, you must join the HPAA.

HP Alumni Assoc 

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Required for HPAA membership.  The "hp_alumni_association" group on Yahoo is the master membership roster. The only emails sent to this list are issues of "HP Alumni News" every week or two. (To stop receiving Alumni News but remain an HPAA member, click here.)


Discussion forums and email lists (optional)   

HPAA members may subscribe to optional discussion forums and email lists. Each is a separate "group" on Yahoo. The subject line of each email gives the name of the group – for example [HPAA Careers]  For each group, you can change your subscription to send daily digest emails, or no emails.

You must use the same email address for your HPAA membership and all subscriptions.

Please allow 48 hours for our volunteers to complete your requests. 

Career Forum

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For most members. Discuss career-related issues – such as job-hunting, networking, entrepreneurship, consulting.

Transition Forum

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For those who are transitioning out of HP or will do so shortly.  Discuss the difficult decisions that must be made very quickly as one leaves HP in the US. (If outside the US: Local Forums and Sites.)

Benefits Forum

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For those who are receiving US HP benefits including those transitioning out of HP.  Discuss HP medical, COBRA, HP 401(k), stock, options, retiree discounts...    

Finance Forum

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For those interested in discussing personal finance.  (HP-specific issues – such as HP medical, HP 401(k), HP stock and options, retiree discounts – are covered on the Benefits Forum.) 

TechTalk Forum

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Technical questions from members. If you have a technical problem, post it to the hundreds of HPAA members on the TechTalk forum. They will help you out.  

Remembrance List

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Obituary and memorial service announcements for current and former HP employees. HPAA membership not required to join – give your HP history in the "Comment to Owner" window.

US/Canada Jobs List

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Job openings. Posted by members and by companies interested in recruiting HP alumni including contract opportunities at HP posted by agencies. (The HPAA does not list direct HP openings.)
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aily Digest for a Jobs list, set "Message Preference" to "Fully Featured" so that subject lines are not truncated.)

World Jobs List

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Reference information   

The "HPAlumnipedia" website captures collected knowledge of HPAA members about transition, career, finance, and other issues – using pages written by teams of members ...and comments selected from the discussion forums. The most popular items are the HPAA's Stock Purchase Plan spreadsheet and the ASAP Checklist for people leaving HP.

HPAlumnipedia

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Log in with your name. If you joined the HPAA since October 2007, you already have a login for this site. If you joined before October 2007, you already probably have a login – try it!  


Professional networking (optional)    

LinkedIn is the leading professional networking system. You can search and reach those in the same group without a paid LinkedIn membership. Use the groups to find exHPers at a specific company, or by industry, title, or city ...or reconnect with a former co-worker ...or just to answer "Whatever happened to?"

Join both groups for best LinkedIn networking.

HP Alumni

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Network for HPAA members. Easy to join HPAA members are pre-approved. If difficulty, click here to sync-up your HPAA membership with your LinkedIn account.

HP Connections

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30,000-member network for current and former employees of: Hewlett-Packard, HP acquisitions (Compaq, EDS, Mercury, Tandem...) and HP spinoffs (Agilent...) HPAA members are pre-approved.


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