Technical skills are important in a lot of workplaces.

But so are people skills.

Just ask Dan Brockett, a Penn State Cooperative Extension educator, who has spent more than a decade in workforce development.

Venango County, he says, currently has quite a few people on the unemployment rolls due to the economic downturn. They are largely people who have worked long, hard and tirelessly for companies and are likely to be called back some day. (continued)