Clear Out Your Desk: 10 Signs You’re About to Get The Pink Slip

3. You can’t clearly define what it is you do (and why only you can do it).

You’re at a networking event and after revealing with pride your fancy professional title, you’re hit with the obvious follow-up, “So what does a (insert fancy title) do?”  If you can’t easily ramble off three major job responsibilities you might be in the danger zone.  It’s one thing to do a little bit of everything or get in where you fit in when your workload is light.  But if you don’t have major designated responsibilities and find yourself regularly looking for tasks and end up watering plants, color coding the Outlook calendar event or labeling the cabinets in the employee lounge you may not be as vital to the organization as you think.

If you’re not given an important project, create one.  When I noticed my agency’s Facebook hadn’t been updated in over a year when I started, I designated myself our agency’s social networking coordinator and began updating it frequently.  I set goals to get more followers and web traffic and it didn’t go unnoticed when management noticed how much visibility they gained.