If formerly a regular, direct U.S. employee of HP or HPE -- or in the process of leaving – join the HP Alumni Association. No charge, thanks to HPAA's Supporting Members.

If leaving or recently left, use our ASAP Checklist. 

Before you need to find a new job, discreetly untangle your personal business from your employer's IT systems. No matter where you work, what your job situation, or how innocent your activities -- there are legal, privacy, and data loss issues with using your employer's IT facilities for your personal business. How and why based on personal experiences reported by HPAA members. How to set up professional email.

How to provide a valid HP or HPE employer address and phone number on an application.  Records are kept at the headquarters office in each country. Instead of using an address from a paystub -- which may be for a building that the company no longer occupies -- members recommend that you use the headquarters address for the country where you worked.

Learn how it works before you need it:

▪ Employment and Experience Verification Member advice for HP, HPE, and related companies.

▪ Check the information being reported about your employment history.

▪ Career Checkup -- hard-earned advice on evaluating your situation, based on extensive online discussions and private communications with alumni.

▪ Advice and info on returning to HPInc or HPE -- including informal and formal restrictions.

▪ Job hunting: Members recommend spending most of your job-hunting time searching outside the company -- you are a stronger candidate while still employed. Very few members report landing during their "redeployment period" -- losing critical time and wasting energy on discussions that end abruptly without explanation. Job Hunting

Reconstructing your HP career:

▪ You can get your personnel file to assist in developing your résumé: HPInc  HPE.

▪ HP publications How to find references to yourself or products or products you worked on in Measure or the HP Journal -- all back issues of which are available online:

Job searching:

▪ "Job Searching for the Mature Worker" HPAA video. Pat Richards from nonprofit NOVA Workforce Services, Sunnyvale, California. Pragmatic, actionable advice. (Not the usual motivational fluff.) Questions and discussion.

▪ "PSR Methodology" -- Problem, Solution, Results -- to strengthen how you describe your experience.

▪ Online Job Search Plan. My Plan walks you through the four major stages -- with examples, tools, and short videos. From NOVA:

▪ Job Center Locator 3,000 non-profit federally-funded Job Centers nationwide -- providing job-search assistance, skills development, and career counseling.

▪ Job hunting advice from members  -- inside or outside HP.

Career topics:

▪ Advice and info on returning to HPInc or HPE -- including informal and formal restrictions.