AkkenCloud
is a cloud-based ATS developed by Akken Inc in New Hampshire. This product
offers the full suite of features typical of applicant tracking systems:
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user-friendly interface and mobile device integration Batch
or mass communication with potential candidates via multiple channels such as
email or by leveraging its integration with social networking sites (e.g.
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Ceipal ATS
Score 8.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
With automation and artificial intelligence, Ceipal’s ATS and CRM solutions help recruiters and staffing professionals to identify, assess, engage, hire, and onboard the best talent.
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Cornerstone Galaxy
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Cornerstone Galaxy is a cloud-based application for talent management. Cornerstone offers suites for recruiting, training, performance monitoring and planning, learning, and HR data management. It is scaled for enterprises.
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At the time we purchased Akken, it was the least expensive on the market that met our needs. It was fairly intuitive, which is important, and we liked the idea that it was hosted remotely because we had had several instances with our inhouse system going down and nearly lost …
This tool was the first of its kind that we
implemented in our company. This tool has a vast variety of great features that
have made my life so easy. The system has an inbuilt smart referral tracking
I've used Sendouts, Bullhorn, Primepoint, and ADP's Workforce Now. If I had been here, I would have never selected Akken. It is truly the worst ATS I've ever seen and I can't believe they are in business. It blows my mind because they are really a horrible, horrible ATS.
AkkenCloud was the first software I used in my career as a recruiter. Since using Akken, I have used TempWorks, Avionte, and JobScience/SalesForce. I do like Akken.
We preferred the ability to go with Mac computers. That was the number one selling point for us. Besides that we liked the ease of the product. The email interface looked exactly like Outlook. The calendar the same. The price was also a big selling point. It came in slightly …
Ceipal ats help us to find the candidates which are genuine and useful, and we can get the candidate total information by using this ATS, the entire Job history of the candidate in be found using this ATS. it, makes the job easy and quick and it’s not an AI tool
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Jobdiva is highly complex in terms of candidate finding, creating jobs or creating a vendor list and clients for our database when it is compared to Ceipal, which gives us a platform where it is very easy to use and no complex process while creating jobs or creating a vendor …
I have not used any other ATS other than Ceipal ATS might be its so fortunate that I would not like use any other ATS in future. Its so addictive trust me with its enriched features, integration and customization are surely beneficial and I don't think any other ATS can match …
Navigation is generally intuitive, but could benefit from some streamlining. Ceipal ATS AI search candidate matching capabilities were a significant factor, aiming to improve candidate quality and streamline the hiring process. Ceipal ATS often presents a more cost-effective …
As mentioned earlier more numbers of user are able to login at a single stretch, while login with their individual website we cant able to login more than 3 users, I had used Job diva during 2018-2020, But Ceipal ATS 10 times better that as per usage . When comparing Ceipal ATS …
we have used LinkedIn Recruiter in our company, It's used to connect candidates directly through LinkedIn, and we can communicate directly through message. we can post the jobs on LinkedIn. In LinkedIn only we can connect with them or else we can't handle and maintain the …
Ceipal ATS is much preferable to other ATS software. For example, it helps us submit the candidate's profile to the client and schedule the candidate's interview. Ceipal ATS also helps us track the candidate in case the candidate has submitted a number of clients. Also, the …
We have used one more job boards platform of LinkedIn. That is used directly to connect the candidates only. We didn’t contact them directly, but the ceipal ATS has a candidate database (contact number, email ID, and resumes), so we can use that quickly to get the results that.
I heard that people use other ATS tools for sourcing the profiles and maintaining the some standards. I would strongly recommed them to use Ceipal ATS atleast once in their life, then definitely they will love it to go with Ceipal ATS. There is no other choice.
the only reason we use Ceipal ATS is that integration of various portals and easy user interface, its very useful for client submission and find out the duplicate resume and scheduling the interview. where other ATS where we don't get much user interface
Ceipal ATS systems seamlessly automate recruitment processes and allow hiring managers to source, shortlist, and select the right candidates. In other words, ATS is like an applicant data repository that can be used to automate workflows and maintain compliance all along the …
I like Ceipal ATS much better than Salesforce. I haven't used Salesforce in years, but I enjoy using Ceipal ATS much better. I think Ceipal ATS has the ability to outperform Salesforce.
We tested Workday Learning and found that it was far less customizable than our current LMS. I will say that Workday has better mobile capabilities. However, the reporting and several additional functionalities were stronger with Cornerstone products. Additionally, Workday's …
Our analysis of these other products has come under various context. In the end Cornerstone remains our core LMS due to its regulatory and compliance capabilities and services. No company has shown that they can match this and it is a critical differentiator for our company …
It's been years since I've worked with another product. I don't really have a great answer for how it stacks up anymore, and Cornerstone OnDemand has acquired some of the bigger players in the same LMS sphere in Saba and SumTotal. However, they have positioned themselves as …
We have been with Cornerstone LMS for about 10 years now, and the LXP for about 2 years. I do not recall the other products we evaluated at the time, but more recently there was some interest in using Workday as an LMS since that is our HR platform. Their learning platform, …
I have previously used SumTotal and Moodle and find Cornerstone OnDemand to be much more deep in terms of the amount of features available and custom configurations possible. From an admin perspective, Cornerstone OnDemand also has a much richer admin community and educational …
Mainly the annual costs of the suite: we are present in 7 countries and develp an implementation of SAP SSFF costs triple than Cornerstone OnDemand. Talentia was "in price" similar than Cornerstone OnDemand, but is more oriented to Europe customers than American or Latam. The …
The user experience is a lot better than using SumTotal as an admin CSOD makes working easy. Without having workarounds. Reporting is a lot better than both platforms. Reporting in CSOD is complex however easy to manage and create when you understand the data points collected.
My background is that I have been a teacher for more than thirty years. I have worked with a few different Learning Management Systems and when it came time for my company to implement its own LMS I evaluated more than twenty other Learning Management Systems. I went through …
Cornerstone OnDemand is a system that can fit a lot of different needs. It is a complex system that is maybe not too contemporary looking at the moment but it looks good enough. But the most important is that it's safe and it is compliant. And that is it's point of difference. …
Since the platform can be accessed not only through the website but also through users' cell phones, Cornerstone's virtual training tool offers great accessibility for employees receiving training.
It works with Android and iOS devices and collaborates with other apps to ensure …
In comparison to other platforms, Cornerstone checks all the boxes. They are always looking for ways to improve the platform with the suggestions from their users. It always evolving which is great because the platform is always staying current with trends as well as the …
Cornerstone OnDemand provides an overall fit for our organization's training needs. Our HR Directors are able to provide and monitor activities and stay abreast of annual mandatory trainings.
Cornerstone is a more holistic system, we have all necessary modules in one place, don't need to switch between different systems. On the other hand, the admin panel in CSOD, especially in the learning module, is out of date, and preparing learning activities is very …
We have used Cornerstone [onDemand] for the past six years. We have not used or reviewed any other learning management systems during my tenure at Jack Henry.
All of the products are essentially the same. The difference between each company and product [is] minimal at best. Some offer additional tools such as integration, reporting, customization, and the like. Others are standard out of the box. Overall each product delivers what …
Akkencloud has worked extremely well as an ATS software for our recruiting firm. We deal with a huge volume of clients and candidates and it is difficult to track and manage the different orders and people we have in play. The statuses and on stop shop for requisition details have made things tremendously easy to give real time updates to our managers and client partners.
Moving to Ceipal ATS was the worst decision we made at the organization I work for. The data loss, lies sold to us from their team, the inability to send emails and text messages successfully, the reporting limitations, the career site limitations across industry and categories… all of it… is quite possibly the biggest Mistake we have made. This horrible platform quite possibly will sink the organization i work for.
I feel Cornerstone is a great solution for companies that have a large amount of compliance training to assign but also want to serve up courses for personal and professional growth. Clients are able to control the level of social engagement within the LXP by turning on/off various features such as commenting on smartcards, "Like" and "Share" or with social Communities where posts can be made and commented on. There is also a great amount of flexibility in making certain features visible to a subset of users vs. enterprise-wide.
Notes about candidates are the most helpful because as a recruiter, we talk to so many people a day that it is common to forget the details of some conversations.
Being able to notify other people in the organization about notes that are put in is very beneficial if the note needs to be in the system and someone should know about it!
Being able to open "candidates" or "job orders" or something else in a new tab is great because then we can have the inbox open while also the candidate notes open, for example.
Once we are able to utilize all the functionality in Ceipal ATS, we will be able to have a quick snapshot of each of our programs to see daily and future interviews, and other tasks.
The dashboard is easy to read. Again, once we can utilize all the functionality in Ceipal ATS, it will be super helpful to see a quick snapshot overview of my programs.
The user group community is unlike any other. It is easy to connect with other clients and the CSOD team is actively engaged, always interested in what clients want and need.
Vast content catalog from a wide variety of providers. Content delivery service makes my job easier. I don't have to deal with course files and metadata!
Ease of use for non-admin admins! I was not a LMS administrator prior to implementation so I learned as I went which was fully supported by the robust training available to system admins.
When a candidate applies via applicant tracking, there is a glitch that you have to submit that candidate a different way than other candidates by using the applied function, then submitting from there. That is a glitch that should be fixed. You should be able to submit the same way and allow the system to track that he was a candidate from applicant tracking.
The new alerts from notes works well. The only change I would make is it is rather slow to attach a note now since the new messages have been added to notes.
Email should be a bit quicker. Rather than going to the server every 5 minutes, it should pull much quicker. That ability is rather easy to fix. Especially since we receive emails on our phone much quicker than we receive from Akken.
While creating a placement, the order in which country and zip code show makes no sense.
If we enter zip code first and then country, then the zip code vanishes, and if we want to fill country first we have to scroll down then scroll up for zip code
It automatically logs off a user, and they have to re-login again and again.
Often few users id gets deactivated automatically and as a admin I have to reactivate it again and again.
User-submitted external training is editable by users even after it has been approved and completed on their transcript, UNLESS a transcript lock is put into place--which also renders all submitted certificates un-openable once approved. Thus they can never be referenced after approval.
The system is designed for annual compliance training to be re-versioned annually. I [believe it] is a very un-user friendly for training that we don't want to re-version because users take it on a rolling, as-needed basis.
Some very key components are not configurable and cause our users a great deal of confusion. For example, there is no way to turn off the search bar on a user transcript or even to edit the prompt text within it. Our users are constantly searching for training here, and end up re-opening/re-launching completed courses rather than registering for a new occurrence of a course.
In general, we find Cornerstone [onDemand] clunky and that it does not really meet our needs.
There is no reason for us to make a switch. Everybody in the office is familiar with it and it allows us to get our work done faster. There are no pressing issues that would warrant a change at this point
We have been using this ATS for the past few years and have never had any major problems. It is being used for candidate sourcing as well as keeping track of all our candidate's databases. In the market, there are very few ATS software available, and I think Ceipal is the best among all.
As long as pricing stays reasonable, we will likely stay with Cornerstone for at least one more contract renewal. It would be a large task to migrate all of our content to a new system. However, the LMS landscape is diversifying with new startups that are showing some real innovation.
One of the easiest interfaces among the other ATS is Ceipal ATS, which reduces manual effort due to the AI automation integration, which increases the productivity of high-volume tasks. The overall Ceipal ATS interface looks presentable or is easy to approach due to its automation tools.
For End-users it is exceptionally easy to use. There is admittedly a steep curve for admins, but simply because there is so much that is truly possible with the system. Cornerstone has been updating many features in recent years, though, which have been moving overall usability in a favorable direction.
In my tenure of using this software, there were multiple times when I faced a technical outage, and it was not too long. We had it resolved as we connected with the support, and they informed us immediately that the developer team is working on it and will get the issue resolved.
I haven't really had any major availability problems. The service is practically impeccable but it is true that at times, due to server and latency problems, the application has been slower. But these have been specific issues that have resolved themselves.
It's an average tool. The calendar function isn't great, email is slow, and there always seem to be day-to-day issues. The functionality is mostly there for a staffing firm, but there are plenty of areas of improvement still needed
I never faced any problem loading the Ceipal login page and when I had a problem it was just my browser. I rarely use any other browser other than Chrome. Even after integrating with other job portals, Ceipal never gets hung or there is any error loading page I have received.
Pages do not load quickly. Often times any action or selection of a box, drop down, check, pretty much ANY Javascript interaction causes the whole entire page to load/reload/start doing something in the background. This makes a nightmare for having to mass edit courses or upload ILT sessions. It's the one of the archaic web designs they use that really bugs me as an admin and makes working in the portal at times intolerable and insufferable
The best support we have received has been from sales. Customer success is pretty much a joke. We have been yelled at by customer success reps; been told to take a screenshot of something we are not seeing; been told there are no issues on there in when Akken hadn't been working for hours, only to have it magically fixed shortly after we reported the problem; and been told engineering was working on a problem for weeks without resolution. If you are going to be working with IT Staffing companies, you have to understand that we have a modicum of knowledge in IT, and you can't BS us. Honesty will get you a lot farther than stringing us along with BS.
I would rate myself a 5 out of 10 in coding. While I have a basic understanding of coding languages like Java and Python, I am still learning and honing my skills. However, I am eager to learn and willing to put in the effort to improve my coding abilities.
Its always important to have support when you are facing problems and when you are the main admin of the organization. Cornerstone Support is very supporting when you have not found the answer in the help guide. its very useful to have a team support to guide you.
A executive visit our organisation and check the compatibility of the systems and check the proper installation and navigation to the Ceipal. and take multiple sessions with the employees phase wise. also give some activity to perform and pull reports.
we use also to admin all our training in person events and sessions. Its easy to admin this kind of trainings and automatize some processes we have. Also de user experience and the integration with other systems helps to the employees to use more. All modules integrated oriented to develop people is the principal reason to have CSOD. The training administration is very complete and allows to automate many processes.
Every time one excutive do a session and clearly explains each tools and its benifits and use of it. Also they welcome questions and do due diligent and answer with a proper explanation. we use ticketing system for every traing sessions and use zoom meeting for effective training.
Overall our rep changed a handful of times during our LMS switchover, which made the training inconsistent. They offer a large amount of online training not specific for what we were looking for at the time, but we were able to make it work.
Clear Communication, core training, Data Migration, Customization and Configuration, Continuous Improvement. Regularly review and optimize your utilization of Ceipal ATS by collecting feedback from users, monitoring key performance metrics, and staying informed about new updates and features. Carefully plan and execute the data migration process to ensure that all existing candidate and recruitment data is accurately transferred to the new system.
The implementation was pretty difficult. We felt they (Cornerstone) didn’t properly allocate the resources to complete our implementation in the timetable we wanted.
For example, we worked on Workday and SSO integrations - work that we had specifically contracted for in advance. When we were ready to work on that project, they didn’t have the people ready to help us, so it took a lot longer than necessary. That was my biggest pain point.
The implementation approach we went with was a self-led implementation. We would speak to the implementation manager once per week, and self-trained. We met with implementation manager to discuss issues, review things that we’d learned for 1 hour. We found that wasn’t enough. Other things would come up outside that one hour window that we couldn’t get answers to. We didn’t have anyone to ask about those things and we had to wait to ask during our weekly meeting.
The advantage of the self-led implementation approach was that it was really inexpensive – significantly less than the implementation cost for the other systems that we looked at. I also liked that we could pace ourselves. There were however big roadblocks. We would have to make sure the right resources were available. We had an implementation/project manager with a lot of experience and felt that the person was knowledgeable but missed on a few things.
In hindsight, I would still go with the self-led implementation, but knowing what I know now, I would ask for the integration person to be available more. I would work that into the contract. With single sign-on, we needed deep linking to build direct links through a Single Sign-On tool, e.g. when someone gets an email, it directs them to training. But it has to go through SSO to get them to the correct link. Deep linking wasn’t turned on in our system and they had to activate it. We encountered little things like that – sequencing pre-requisites which were problematic. We tried to troubleshoot ourselves.
I recommend you consider contracting for some extra implementation hours and determine when they are going to be available. Work it into the contract that you have the ability to call tech support during implementation. In addition to weekly implementation meetings, they have technical webexes – 4 every week, but 2 didn’t apply to us – one as we were using SSO. The challenge is they were not always relevant – we had specific questions that didn’t fall into those categories
At the time we purchased Akken, it was the least expensive on the market that met our needs. It was fairly intuitive, which is important, and we liked the idea that it was hosted remotely because we had had several instances with our inhouse system going down and nearly lost all of our CRM/ATS databases at one time.
I have not used any other ATS other than Ceipal ATS might be its so fortunate that I would not like use any other ATS in future. Its so addictive trust me with its enriched features, integration and customization are surely beneficial and I don't think any other ATS can match with it.
We tested Workday Learning and found that it was far less customizable than our current LMS. I will say that Workday has better mobile capabilities. However, the reporting and several additional functionalities were stronger with Cornerstone products. Additionally, Workday's cost was higher than Cornerstone's.
I have given an 8 rating as the Ceipal is being used in our department for mostly recruitment purposes so we don't have many other departments. We use Ceipal for recruitment and for sales purposes. Currently, it's being used for the bother dept and working absolutely fine so I think an 8 rating is reasonable.
ATS software can help you create a positive candidate experience, simplify your recruitment process, and stand out to top talent.
We've made a significant number of placements, and our overall profitability has increased as a result. Ceipal helped us do that.
In recruitment, return on investment (ROI) measures the effectiveness and value of your organization's recruitment strategies and activities used to attract.
Our goal is to standardize training across our company and its 5 permanent locations allowing us to build a common culture across the company.
Our goal is to be able to push out specific training to our teams which are spread across an enormous geographical area of the United States.
We are currently meeting our objectives - in less than three months' time our team members have completed more than 1500 individual courses through Cornerstone OnDemand.
