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The purpose of this research is to provide qualitative information about what makes work meaningful to millenials. At the moment, there is a lot discussion about meaningful work and millenials’ perceptions about it. Therefore, it is important to understand how millennials understand meaningful work and that is what I aim to describe in this study. As a theoretical background I use Marjolein Lips-Wiersma and Sarah Wrights’ (2012) framework about the construction of meaningful work. In addition, I will present former research connected to millenials’ perceptions of meaningful work and researchers’ propositions on how to develop meaningfulness of work. This study has been conducted by interviewing three students. All of them studied in University of Helsinki and at the time of interviews they were 20-24 years old. All of the interviews were recorded and transcribed in order to ensure accurate and truthful description of results. The analysis was conducted with the help of content analysis: first by identifying relevant parts from interviews and then by grouping findings based to its theme. The analysis revealed that interviewed millennials had different approaches to meaningfulness of work. Other interviewees approached meaningfulness of work through work’s purpose and goals. However, one of the interviewees viewed works’ goal only as one component among others that are constructing meaningfulness of work. Millenials saw good working atmosphere, opportunity to develop oneself and working for common advantage as elements that construct the experience of meaningful work. The results of this study describe millenials’ perceptions about meaningful work and their expectations about their future jobs. This information can be utilized in practice for example in work design, leadership and recruiting.