SESSION DESCRIPTION Valero’s Dan Hilbert, recipient of the 2006 Recruiter of the Year award from ERE and the award for the Most Innovative Recruiting Process, says that whether your business becomes the next Google or becomes the next Pan Am directly depends on innovation throughout the recruiting and workforce analytics cycle. In this session, Hilbert describes the six rules of innovation you need to learn in order for your company to avoid being stuck in a time warp. You’ll leave with a better idea of how to raise the profile of recruiting and staffing within an organization to the strategic level; how to use advanced predictive modeling to proactively plan ahead and avoid the hire-and-fire cycle of mass hiring and layoffs; the keys to promoting recruiting innovation and gaining support from executive leadership; and how your staffing operation can ensure your business flourishes through the Baby Boomer retirement phenomena.