Boolean search strings used to search applications like HRIS, ATS, job boards can be considered a scripting language. A scripting language allows control of software applications, and boolean search strings we create to access data within applications meet this definition. While boolean is a data type, the search strings we program to access information are a type of programming language. Realizing boolean search strings are a programming language emphasizes why being able to effectively create them is so important for sourcing skills.

1. The Staffing Professionals, Recruiters, and
Sourcers Scripting Language!!!!
So boolean search strings, the operators, and all that makes up a search string,
what is it really? I mean it is technical, to a point. So is it a language, is it scripting,
is it just something different.
The definition of a scripting language is - A scripting language, script language or
extension language is a programming language that allows control of one or more
software, web based, or cloud based applications. Guess what, that means the
boolean search string we create are by definition a scripting language.
Now Boolean is actually a data type, however the search string that we create to
access the data within these applications, from HRIS, ATS, to job boards, to free
internet searches, are by definition a type of programming language.
Now why is that relevant, well perhaps it is not, but it puts more emphasis on why
sourcing, and being able to "program" and create good boolean string is so
important and so hard. For me it is just kind of interesting to think all this time,
those of us who actually create our own boolean strings are by definition
programming at some level.