In the current restricted visa regime, how does the Talent Acquisition Team meet their target for specialized positions?

this visa problem or barrier is not for the talent, please don't worry.

Opportunities will be there, but the talent acquisition teams to make a strategic change to source the candidates.

There will be more internal promotions of current resources to fill up the gap without impacting the performance. The Training & Development department has to be more active to prepare the available resources upto the mark.

College / University recruiting will also play a key role. Corporations have to invest and sponsor universities students, and offer scholarship to attract the best available young talent.

Strong HR managers may actually address the Ministry of Labour, requesting visa approvals for certain persons by name, in the event that these persons are Subject Matter Experts and work in rare fields that do not have much talent. We have done it only once when a60+ year old SME man was denied a visa, we explained that we had been working for6 months in sourcing talent and gave proof of our work, approval was granted upon our explanations, you have to be smart though when you chose your wordings. 

Dear Mr. Pillai, 

The restriction does have an impact on the acquisition of talent from a particular sector or region. But I feel it also opens the door to explore news avenues and if tapped, could open up a whole new dimension for the Talent Acquisition team.

I don’t think so that due to such restriction there is complete shutdown call of for talented individuals. As we have been witness in Asian countries there is a  mass draining of talent to Middle East, European countries and America and main reason is lack of political stability and less R&D and favorable corporate practices which has been forcing them to move away and no such restriction is being stopping them.