How to Cover the Great Resignation

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With the resignation rate in the U.S. at a record high in September, the Great Resignation continues to be a unique economic story.

This SABEW training session will help reporters find data and story ideas related to this topic. The moderator and panelists will also discuss possible reasons why people are quitting jobs at an unprecedented pace.

Will the Great Resignation be a thing of the past in 2022? Or will this continue to be an economic trend?

Moderator

Jennifer Liu, work reporter, CNBC

Jennifer Liu is a work reporter for CNBC Make It, where she covers hiring trends, the workplace and professional success. Prior to joining CNBC in 2019, she was an editor at LearnVest and Northwestern Mutual, where she launched writers on stories around work and money. Previously, she helped run digital content for All You magazine, a Time Inc. brand. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.

Panelists

Pedro da Costa, senior reporter, Market News International

Pedro da Costa  is a Federal Reserve & economy correspondent at Market News International. Previously, he was a communications director and host of State of Working America podcast at Economic Policy Institute.

Da Costa has been writing about economics and financial markets since 2001, at Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider, and he was a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 2014 to 2016. His work has focused on issues close to EPI’s mission: labor markets, Federal Reserve policy, inequality, and race.

Ian O. Williamson, dean, The Paul Merage School of Business

Ian O. Williamson was appointed dean of The UCI Paul Merage School of Business on January 1, 2021. Prior to joining the Merage School, he served as pro vice chancellor and dean of commerce at the Wellington School of Business and Government at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Williamson received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor’s degree in business from Miami University. He has served as a faculty member at Melbourne Business School, Rutgers Business School, the Zurich Institute of Business Education, the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and Institut Teknologi Bandung.

Williamson is a globally recognized expert in the area of human resource management. His research examines the impact of “talent pipelines” on organizational and community outcomes. Williamson has assisted executives in over 20 countries across six continents enhance firm operational and financial outcomes, improve talent recruitment and retention, enhance firm innovation and understand the impact of social issues on firm outcomes.

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