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Former regular, direct HP employee or defined termination date?
...then you are eligible to join at no charge. (Sorry, but contractors,
co-op students, interns, and employees of resellers,
distributors, and joint-venture companies do not qualify for
membership.)
This is an independent volunteer organization operated by former HP
employees. It is not endorsed or supported by the Hewlett‑Packard Company.
Summary of the steps to join HPAlumni:
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Select an email address (you are at this step)
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Indicate your situation
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Email your application
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Join HPAlumni 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 HPAlumni by email.
Please send your application from the
email account that you wish to use for your membership.
Please select a single email
address to use for all dealings with HPAA. We use your email
address, not your name, to identify you for the various HPAA
services. (With more than 21,000 members,
we have many duplicate names.)
If you are in transition, you will want to receive HPAA career and job information continuously during your
transition. For this reason, we do not accept applications that specify
an HP or EDS email address – because you will soon lose that address.
Wherever you are employed, there are
many
reasons why your personal email messages – including
networking, job hunting emails, and career discussions – should go to a
private email 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.
HPAlumni uses the Yahoo Groups system,
but you do not have to use a yahoo.com email address or
have a Yahoo account
to join HPAlumni.
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.
Indicate your situation
Click one of the links
below for your application – depending on your situation:
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