FReepmail.
And the University pipeline that used to find and develop that talent is no longer functional. Corporations once paid for such things and actively recruited graduates with excellent salaries and working conditions.
That was then. This is now.
Corporations have been strip-mining the work-force for decades, and replacing their staff with cheap, disposable immigrants. It should be no great surprise that there is a "shortage" of skilled workers.
What we actually have a shortage of executives willing to pay for skilled workers.