You're Qualified. So Why Aren't You Getting Hired? | A Michaela Coel Career Diagnostic

Breaking the Timeline by Shana Francis · Apr 24, 2026 · 28m · transcript

Have you ever walked out of an interview knowing you were prepared and could do the job, and still not got it? Or looked at someone else's career and wondered how they got there so fast?

This is the first Career in Focus, a monthly episode where I take one person whose career is worth studying and pull it apart, stage by stage. We start with Michaela Coel: from performing poetry at open mic nights in East London, to Chewing Gum, to I May Destroy You, which she made on her own terms after turning down a deal that would have meant giving up ownership of her work.

Underneath it all is one idea…