Career services for the College of Business and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are splitting into two entities.

Formerly, the two were housed together in Carver Hall. The business college’s career service is moving into the new Gerdin Building and LAS’s career service is moving into 102 Catt Hall.

The move is precipitated by the business college’s desire to stand alone in offering its students career services in its new building, said Steve Kravinsky, director of career placement for the College of LAS.

Career services employees felt the College of LAS needed to have its own office as well, Kravinsky said. The split will allow career services to work with students on a more focused basis, he said.

The change of focus to one group of students, rather than the combined group of business and liberal arts students, will lead to more individual attention, he said.

“[We will be able to] become a specialist rather than a generalist,” he said.

There are three sets of services offered to students by LAS career services, he said. The first service offered is career development and involves the continued teaching of LAS 104; meeting with individuals who need counseling, such as undecided students and students wishing to make a major change in his or her curriculum; and offering Discover, a computer program that helps students explore career interests, on eight computers in Catt Hall, which is similar to what was offered in Carver, Kravinsky said.

The second service offered is the internship and co-op program, which will continue to be enhanced, he said. “[Students need to know] how important it is to get career-related experience.”

The third service is job search assistance and involves on-campus recruiting and mock interviewing. Previously, LAS “has been nomadic” in its on-campus recruiting spot, Kravinsky said. For the past few years, the skyboxes in Jack Trice Stadium have been used; before that, it was the basement in Pearson Hall before it was remodeled, he said.

In conjunction with the business college, LAS students will be able to “interview in state-of-the-art rooms in Gerdin,” he said.

Students can receive basic counseling for free. However, there is a $20 charge, which can be placed on students’ U-bill, for individualized guidance, he said.

Budget cuts and the rising cost of software available at career services have caused the $20 fee to continue to be charged, he said. “It’s an expense that makes sense.”