82 Attracting the Best Talent Valero strives to hire the best and brightest, while improving the diversity of our workforce. 800+ New employees in 2021 Valero partners with the City of San Antonio in SA Ready to Work, which prepares local residents with an income level less than 250% of the federal poverty guideline to learn new skills and prepare them for living wage employment. We understand this is foundational to sustaining an industry-leading workforce. Diversity delivers innovation, and innovation delivers results. The people we hire today will be our leaders of tomorrow. In 2021, we continued to enhance our recruitment process to ensure we reached the widest pool of candidates and ensure their hiring experience reflects our cultural values and our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. We have systematized the use of diverse interview panels; require diverse candidate slates for jobs with more than 30 applicants; employ blind resume reviews for certain jobs; modernized our job postings to be inclusive of all potential candidates; and updated the social and digital platforms on which our jobs are marketed. We educate our hiring teams on our culture and priorities as they relate to the requisite caliber of candidates and our commitment to improving diversity. We actively engage with local veterans’ organizations and technical and community colleges for our hiring needs. DEI at Valero Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is not a standalone activity or program at Valero. It is embedded in our cultural values. It is integrated into every process and mechanism that impacts our recruitment activities and our employees. In these pages, you will see aspects of our commitment to build more diverse teams and ensure an authentic sense of belonging to support inclusion in our workforce and in everything we do.