Join - Hewlett-Packard Alumni

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, co-op students, interns, and employees of resellers, distributors, and joint-venture companies do not qualify for membership.)

Summary of the steps to join the HPAA:

Select an email address (you are at this step)
Indicate your location and situation
Email your application
Join the HPAA networking groups on LinkedIn (optional)
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.

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 19,000 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.

The HPAA uses the Yahoo Groups system, but you do not have to use a yahoo.com email address or have a Yahoo account 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
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 location and situation

Click one of the links below – depending on your location:

US (Click if you are in the US.)
Non-US (Click if you are outside the US.)

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