Career Conversations will be occurring in the Memorial Union Art Gallery Wednesday, focusing on business administration.

The event is hosted by the Career Center, and focuses on educating students on selected career related topics in a laid back atmosphere, the Career Center’s website said.

The Career Center’s website said Career Conversations is a series of panel discussions that focus on various topics of interest.

The event is designed to provide students with an opportunity to gain insight into areas of interest to them, to get advice from professionals currently working in the field and to increase their knowledge of options after graduation.

During these sessions, employer and alumni participants will answer questions from a Career Center moderator and students about their personal career paths, how their education is relevant to their particular position, the realities of the industry they work in, strategies for entering the industry and how students can get their feet in the door.

Students at all different stages in their respective academic careers are encouraged to attend the Career Conversations event.

Emily M. Bublitz, a graduate student and graduate assistant in the Career Center, said the event is a monthly panel series based off of the 1 Million Cups format. She added 1 Million Cups is a local community event that features one person per week to share to the audience about their new business venture or invention and then it opens to a Q & A.

“Our program is similar; each month we focus on career opportunities in a different industry and bring in professionals who have found careers within that field that might be outside the box from what students typically expect to come from their degree in any given program,” Bublitz said.

There has been only one Career Conversations session so far in the 2016-2017 NDSU academic school year. That event focused on careers in English.

For the 2015-2016 Career Conversations schedule, there were six events planned throughout the academic school year, five occurred because one was cancelled in April.

“This event allows students the opportunity to not only hear from a variety of professionals but also the opportunity to network with professionals in the Fargo-Moorhead area,” Bublitz said.

More information about the Career Conversations event can be found on the NDSU Career Center’s webpage.

Career Conversations is free for students to attend and a student ID should be presented.