Careers Advice & Guidance
Here at the group, we pride ourselves on providing a high quality, confidential, impartial, and supportive Careers Advice and Guidance service. This is open to all students throughout their time with us, we offer group workshops, individual bookable appointments, and drop-in appointments.
The aim is to help students plan their future and discuss, research the variety of options available to them and their skills building on from their aspirations for life after college.
The College’s Careers Team is here to help make informed career decisions and help to plan their next steps, by providing impartial advice on questions such as:
- Not sure what to do when you finish your studies?
- Need help looking for employment or apprenticeship?
- Need advice about choosing a course for next year?
- Need help with choosing a university course?
- Want some practical help with applications or CVs?
- Need help preparing for an interview?
The service also assists to explore which potential pathways best suit their interests, skills and aspirations. We are proud to have available specialist L6 qualified impartial careers advisors, whilst also proudly holding the Matrix Standard and working within the Gatsby framework- further helping to ensure our support is of the highest standard.
Careers Contact Details
You can drop into the Student Central office within College or you can also call one of our advisors.
Castleford College – 01924 789 482
Selby College – 01757 211 060
Wakefield College – 01924 789 352
Or you can email the careers team on
Additional Resources
- Pathways
Our students utilise Pathways One to help ensure that they can make informed career decisions, based on live local labour market insight (LMI). Salary, predicted employment and other detailed Labour Market Information is displayed for every job at a regional and national level. You can watch videos of real people talking about their jobs. See the common study routes people take to progress to their chosen career, to help make informed choices from your next step.
- Student Resources
Careers Explorer - Students can explore over 800 different careers with detailed information about the role, salary and employment data whilst linking right through to your courses.
- Useful Links
Pathways One - Designed to help you find a good career by providing the most current local data on wages, employment, job postings, and associated education and training.
National Careers Service - Careers advice and information on a wide range of jobs, training course resources and funding.
UCAS - Find universities and colleges using ‘Where to study’.
Apprenticeship Website – Apprenticeship information, advice and vacancies.
Ethnic Jobsite - Bridging the gap between employers and ethnic minorities in the UK.
Prospects - The UK’s official graduate careers website, 1000s of jobs and courses.
Government website - Find a Job
Accreditations
- GATSBY Benchmarks Results
The Gatsby Benchmarks are a framework of eight standards for world-class careers guidance in education, developed by the Gatsby Foundation for schools and colleges in England.
Benchmark 1: A stable careers programme
The Heart of Yorkshire Education Group has met 100% of the 18 assessment areas in benchmark 1.Benchmark 2: Learning from careers and labour market information
The Heart of Yorkshire Education Group has met 100% of the 2 assessment areas in benchmark 2. Previous score was 80% in March 2025.Benchmark 3: Addressing the needs of each student
The Heart of Yorkshire Education Group has met 91% of the 8 assessment areas in benchmark 3.Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
The Heart of Yorkshire Education Group has met 100% of the 3 assessment areas in benchmark 4.Benchmark 5: Encounters with employers and employees
The Heart of Yorkshire Education Group has met 100% of the 3 assessment areas in benchmark 5.Benchmark 6: Experiences of workplaces
The Heart of Yorkshire Education Group has met 75% of the single assessment area in benchmark 6.Benchmark 7: Encounters with further and higher education
The Heart of Yorkshire Education Group has met 100% of the 3 assessment areas in benchmark 7.Benchmark 8: Personal guidance
The Heart of Yorkshire Education Group has met 80% of the 2 assessment areas in benchmark 8. - The Matrix Standard
The Heart of Yorkshire Education Group has been awarded the Matrix standard for its Careers Guidance and Course Information services – helping to deliver outstanding, impartial support to more than 10,000 learners across Castleford, Selby and Wakefield - Learn More
The Matrix Standard is owned by the Department for Education (DfE) and ensures the delivery of high-quality information, advice and guidance (IAG) services that enable people to reach their full potential.