A profile of the career development characteristics of young gifted adolescents: Examining gender and multicultural differences

This study documents the career development characteristics of gifted adolescents. Gifted students, male and female, were found to have knowledge of career decision‐making factors typical of students several years their senior. They also were precocious in the amount of career planning they had completed. The gifted female adolescents indicated career preferences for occupations paying far less money than the careers to which their male peers aspired. No multicultural differences were evident. The implications for career counseling of gifted students are discussed.