Advice for applying for a job ... help please

When applying for your second job out of college, who do you include as references?

I don't want my bosses to know I'm applying, but I don't have a ton of other people I could include on the list. If I didn't include my current bosses, I would have to include college professors and people that I haven't known for awhile.

I have basically decided I want to include my current bosses, but I don't want to tell them until I must and would like to not tell them until I at least had an interview.

Is it alright to include a note on my contact list asking those people not be contacted until we interviewed, or asking that I be contacted first so I can have warning?

Do people usually call references before interviews, or wait until afterward?

Is it stupid to include them as refereces in the first place?

I don't mind if they talk to my current bosses ... I do a good job, I just don't want them to know I'm looking.

Thanks for the help.

 

Perhaps you can use somebody who works at your current paper, doesn't supervise you, and could give a testimony to your abilities.

There is a good chance somebody might call your current supervisor anyway... people talk, so don't assume it won't happen. But there is no benefit to you if your current place finds out - if that happens, say you were encouraged to apply by somebody you knew on the staff and say as little as possible.