Today you do real research on the job role you chose. Your research plan set out how you would investigate it. Now you carry out the first part of that plan: read at least three substantial sources and write one page of notes you can still use in six months.

If you do not have a Job Role Research Plan yet, use your Career Fields Shortlist, the list you made earlier of the career areas you were most drawn to. Pick your role from it, write that role at the top of today's page, and list three places you will look (for example Careers Portal, a course page, a person you can message), then continue.

Useful notes are not a copy of the page. They capture the source, the facts that matter, what surprised you, and the questions still open.

These three terms shape the notes you will write. Read them once, then use them as the spine of your page.

Before you write your own page, study Conor's notes on the role of pharmacy technician. As each annotation opens, notice what he kept, what he left out, and why each follow-up question is worth chasing.

You will write your own notes next, using the same four-part shape for every source: source, key facts, surprises, follow-ups.

Now write your own one-page research notes on the job role from your plan. Use at least three substantial sources. Where you can, have those sources already open or bookmarked from your plan so this block is note-taking, not hunting.

For each source, use Conor's four-part shape:

• Source: name it clearly (site, document, person and role)
• Key facts: short, checkable points only
• Surprise: one thing that shifted how you see the role
• Follow-up: one question the source did not settle

Save the page as Job Role Research Notes in your Strand 1.2 portfolio folder. You will come back to it soon, when you match what you wrote about yourself in your personal statement against what this role actually asks for, and again later when you map the steps from school into the role for ALT 2, the second Applied Learning Task you will be assessed on.

Honest exit ticket: a complete one-page Job Role Research Notes is the goal. If reading runs long, the minimum to leave class with is two full four-part source blocks plus a named third source to finish the same week for homework. Three thin sources do not equal three real ones.

If a planned source is unavailable today, swap in another substantial one and note the swap at the top of the page.

Two minutes with the person beside you, then steal anything sharp back onto your notes page.

• Which finding surprised you enough that you would change a question on your research plan, and what is the new question?
• If you could only keep one of your three sources for an interview next week, which one would you keep, and what does that say about the other two?