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How to Join the HP Alumni Association
The HP Alumni Association is an independent volunteer organization.
Thanks to our sponsors, there is no charge to join. The HPAA is not endorsed or supported by the Hewlett-Packard Company.
You are eligible to join the HPAA if you were formerly a regular, direct employee
of HP – or
have a defined HP termination date. (Sorry, but contractors, interns, and employees of resellers,
distributors, and joint-venture companies do not qualify for
membership.)
Summary of the steps to join the HPAA:
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Select an email address (you are at this step)
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Email your application
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Join the HPAA networking groups on
LinkedIn (optional)
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Select HPAA services: job posts, discussion forums...
Step 1. Select an email address
Most HPAA services, including the job posts, are provided via email.
To ensure a reliable email path, you join the HPAA by email.
Please send your application from the
email account that you wish to use for your membership.
If you are in transition, you will want to receive HPAA career and job information continuously during your
transition. We do not accept applications that specify HP or EDS email addresses.
Wherever you are employed, there are
many
reasons why your personal email – including job posts and career discussions – should go to a private account.
If you do not already have a personal email account, you can
get a free one in
a few minutes. These accounts are accessible from any computer at work, home, or
library using a browser. Some leading free email services include
Yahoo Mail,
Microsoft Hotmail, and
Google Gmail. Yahoo and
Hotmail accounts can be upgraded at low cost to remove the advertising.
The HPAA uses the Yahoo Groups system,
but you do not have to use an yahoo.com email address
to join the HPAA.
Specify a reliable email address
– not one
that intermittently
discards bulk emails as spam
without your knowledge.
For every one of these recurring
cycles, you
and HPAA volunteers
have to take special action to reactivate your HPAA membership.
Please don't apply using
one of these unreliable types of email account:
An email account that you don't check regularly. If the email fills
up, your email provider will automatically complain to Yahoo – and Yahoo's system will
automatically close your HPAA membership -
An email that sends
challenge emails in response to incoming emails. Yahoo's system will automatically close your
HPAA membership.
Details
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Certain email providers:
@bigfoot.com @rediffmail.com
Corporate email systems: for example @hp.com
@eds.com @cisco.com -
Email forwarding services.
Many forwarding services are discarding emails – not just from HPAA, but truly
important emails from other senders. Some examples: @name @cornell.edu
@alum.mit.edu @computer.org @ieee.org @arrl.org
Step 2.
Email your application
Click one of the links
below for your application -- depending on your situation:
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