Whirygig.
One of the things I have noticed in this country is that the companies that are having the most problems recruiting at the moment are those that are paying the least whilst at the same time expecting pilots to live and work in fairly primitive conditions....No surprise really. In remote areas here the pilot is nearly always the lowest paid worker in camp.
As for "lowering recruitment standards and putting more money into training" I was going to list that as an option but I was trying to stick to just the options that were somewhere in the realm of possibility. It's a nice thought though !!!!