Maree, J.G. (Kobus)2025-05-302025-05-302024-09Maree, K. (2024). In search of career-life meaning: Enhancing the existential experience of a gifted learner. Gifted Education International, 40(3), 398-415. https://doi.org/10.1177/02614294241254914.0261-4294 (print)2047-9077 (online)10.1177/02614294241254914http://hdl.handle.net/2263/102585This article reports on how intervention research based on integrative career counselling enhanced the existential experience of a gifted learner. The participant of this study was a purposively selected gifted 17-year-old girl learner in search of a career that would help her experience meaning, purpose, and hope in and through her career-life. An explanatory (QUALITATIVE-quantitative) research design was used together with qualitative career construction counselling-based methods. A new standardised test was used to generate quantitative data. Savickas’ guidelines for analysing career construction-elicited data were implemented to identify themes and subthemes in the outcomes. The intervention helped the participant decide on a career through which she could experience meaning, purpose, and hope in her career-life. Longitudinal research is needed to determine the medium- and long-term influence of the type of intervention discussed here with gifted learners in individual as well as group contexts across the diversity spectrum.en© The Author(s) 2024.Intervention researchExistential experienceGifted learnersCareer construction counsellingQualitative-quantitative approachPostprint Article