What is Get Career Ready?
Get Career Ready (GCR) is Oaklands College's employability framework, designed to ensure every learner develops the skills, knowledge and experiences needed to succeed in their chosen career, apprenticeship, higher education pathway or future employment.
What you’ll gain through Get Career Ready
The programme connects classroom learning with the world of work through meaningful employer engagement, helping learners understand their industry, develop professional behaviours and build the confidence needed for their next steps.
Throughout their time at Oaklands, learners take part in a structured journey that includes employer insight sessions, industry projects, careers education, employability skills development, employer feedback and progression opportunities.
Working closely with employers across a wide range of sectors, we ensure learners gain relevant industry knowledge and develop the skills that businesses value most.
At the heart of Get Career Ready is our commitment that every learner will have direct and impactful engagement with employers, providing valuable insight into their chosen sector and helping them make informed decisions about their future.
Our Employer Partners
We work in partnership with a wide range of employers to bring industry insight and real world experience into the classroom. These partnerships play a key role in ensuring our students are developing the skills, knowledge and behaviours that meet current industry needs.
Through these collaborations, employers support each programme by delivering workshops, guest talks, live project briefs and work placements, giving students valuable exposure to industry and helping them understand real career pathways.
See below for some of the partners we work with.
Employers we work with
Industry Specific Experience
Get Career Ready is tailored to each curriculum area, ensuring students gain experience that reflects their chosen industry. Through employer partnerships, live briefs and practical projects, learning is brought to life with real-world context.
This approach helps students build practical skills, understand employer expectations and gain a clearer view of potential career pathways within their chosen sector.