Unread Offers™ reframes hiring not as a neutral evaluation-but as a behavioral system prone to emotional misrecognition. Silence, restraint, guardedness, or culturally informed tone are often misread as aloofness, arrogance, or instability-especially when expressed by Black candidates. These misreadings don't just reject people; they reject context, grief-coded survival strategies, and emotional nuance shaped by systemic navigation. Drawing on grief-literacy, trauma-informed HR diagnostics, and lived Scrollkeeper frameworks, Sungba Asanti Kofi introduces a field-ready toolkit for decoding how hiring processes collapse under emotional misreading. This brief but potent volume examines how "fit" becomes a proxy for comfort, how composure becomes suspicion, and how excellence becomes unread when it isn't performed the way systems expect. Unread Offers™ is designed for: - HR leaders navigating retention, risk, and equity - DEI professionals building anti-bias hiring systems - Therapists supporting emotionally misread clients - Coaches and hiring managers eager to rewire institutional misalignment Inside you'll find: - Real-world breakdowns of how tone bias derails qualified candidates - Audit prompts to reframe how silence or delay are interpreted in interviews - Scrollkeeper Tables™ for documenting emotional misrecognition - Guidance for inclusive hiring design, feedback integrity, and panel calibration - A grief-informed approach to validating unseen excellence and decoding unperformed offers Whether you're interviewing, onboarding, coaching, or documenting, this book gives you new language-and sharper rhythm-to read what's already been offered, even when grief-coded tone hid the message.Because the offer was made. It was simply unread

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