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Onboarding
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Performance Management
Succession Planning
Recruiting / ATS
Learning Management
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What is Cornerstone OnDemand?
Cornerstone powers the future ready workforce, with HR software and solutions designed to unite people, teams, technology and business, and inspire a work environment of growth, agility and success for all. With an AI-powered and skills-forward system designed for the contemporary workforce, Cornerstone helps organizations modernize the learning and development experience, deliver the most relevant content from anywhere, accelerate talent and career mobility, and establish skills as the universal language of growth and success across the business. Cornerstone serves over 6,000 customers and 75M users and is available in 180 countries and 50 languages.
- Learning & Development: Support learners' skills with learning management software.
Recruiting & Onboarding: Fill job reqs faster with an engaging candidate experience and a streamlined recruiting and onboarding process.
Performance Management: Build a high-performing culture that motivates people to meet their potential.
Engagement Surveys: Measure the business impact of talent programs and gain a clear picture of employee engagement and satisfaction.
Extended Enterprise: Expand learning to audiences that are critical to the organization, like partners or customers.
Core HR: Consolidate and uncomplicate HR processes into one place to better support, reward, and engage people.
Workforce Planning: Maximize workforce efficiency through thoughtful planning and a collaborative, data-driven approach.
Analytics & Reporting: Make better, more informed talent decisions with predictive analytics and visualizations.
Integration & APIs: Connect to a broader ecosystem to move data where it has its greatest impact.
Cornerstone OnDemand Features
Onboarding Features
- Supported: New hire portal
- Supported: Manager tracking tools
- Supported: Compliance tracking and reporting
Performance and Goals Features
- Supported: Corporate goal setting
- Supported: Subordinate goal setting
- Supported: Individual goal setting
- Supported: Non-hierarchical goal setting
- Supported: Line-of sight-visibility
- Supported: Performance tracking
Performance Management Features
- Supported: Performance plans
- Supported: Plan weighting
- Supported: Manager note taking
- Supported: Performance improvement plans
- Supported: Review status tracking
- Supported: Rater nominations
- Supported: Rater nomination workflow
- Supported: Review reminders
- Supported: Workflow restrictions
- Supported: Review transfer
- Supported: Multiple review frequency
- Supported: Reporting
Succession Planning Features
- Supported: Create succession plans/pools
- Supported: Candidate ranking
- Supported: Employee profiles
- Supported: Candidate search
- Supported: Candidate add
- Supported: Candidate development
Recruiting / ATS Features
- Supported: Job Requisition Management
- Supported: Company Website Posting
- Supported: Publish to Social Media
- Supported: Job Search Site Posting
- Supported: Customized Application Form
- Supported: Resume Management
- Supported: Duplicate Candidate Prevention
- Supported: Candidate Search
- Supported: Applicant Tracking
- Supported: Collaboration
- Supported: Task Creation and Delegation
- Supported: Email Templates
- Supported: User Permissions
- Supported: Notifications and Alerts
- Supported: Reporting
Learning Management Features
- Supported: Course authoring
- Supported: Course catalog or library
- Supported: Player/Portal
- Supported: Learning content
- Supported: Mobile friendly
- Supported: Progress tracking & certifications
- Supported: Assignments
- Supported: Compliance management
- Supported: Learning administration
- Supported: Learning reporting & analytics
- Supported: eLearning
- Supported: Assessments
- Supported: Live online learning
- Supported: In-person learning
- Supported: Micro-learning
- Supported: Video learning
- Supported: eCommerce
- Supported: AICC-compliant
- Supported: SCORM-compliant
- Supported: Tin Can (xAPI) compliant
- Supported: Social learning
Additional Features
- Supported: Airtight integration across modules - from recruiting to learning to performance
- Supported: Machine learning and predictive analytics to get actionable information from your talent data
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Cornerstone OnDemand Integrations
- Beamery
- Big Think Edge
- Broadbean
- CareerBuilder.com
- CIC Plus
- CleverConnect
- CyberSource
- First Advantage
- HireRight
- HireVue
- SterlingOne (TalentWise)
- Workplace from Meta
- getAbstract
- pymetrics
- ADP Workforce Now
- Linkedin Recruiter
- Accurate
- A-Check Global
- Aktive Reply
- American Heart Association
- AppLearn
- Biz Library
- Cegos
- Choice Screening
- CyberU
- EBI
- e-Days
- ej4
- Elucidat
- eQuest
- FAMA
- IBM
- Intuition
- JJ Keller
- Octily
- Paradox
- Phenom People
- ServiceNow
- SHL
- Skilla
- Skillpill
- Skillsoft
- Sqeptech
- Talent +
- Talentry
- Tax Credit Co
- TED
- Tracker
- TTS
- Ultimate Software
- SmashFly
Cornerstone OnDemand Competitors
Cornerstone OnDemand Technical Details
Deployment Types | SaaS |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web |
Supported Countries | All |
Supported Languages | 50 languages |
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Great Product
- Wide library of courses
- Customer Service
- mobile platform
- Visibility for certain links to be turned off
- Clear explanation of the approval process to the submitter on performance reviews
Cornerstone OnDemand has the Corner on the Market
- Manage teams.
- Deliver training.
- Track hours.
- Implementation
Happy Cornerstone OnDemand Customer
- Great User Group Community
- Lots of support for admins
- Listen to the customer to make enhancements
- More common process for all modules (example: Save and Exit and then Save again on some screens, but not all)
I'm a fan!
- 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.
- While I'm a huge fan of content services, there is room for improvement in the content support team providing more clear communication. It can be confusing due to how and what clients purchase and as a client, I'm not always sure if what is being said applies to me. I will say it has improved over the past several months and they are interested in feedback - both positives!
Cornerstone Highly Recommend
- Implementation
- Training
- Communication
- None
- None
- None
CSOD is able to make you a Superstar! Exceed your organizations expectation for HR tech experiences.
- Creating a portal for many HCM functions that can be customized to look and feel like your particular org./org culture.
- Alignment of goals and work effort.
- Give employees what they want from curated access to the educational components needed for them to get ahead.
- Customizable workflows for recruiting and Succession tasks that allow for just about any configuration you can dream up...and use as many as you need by division or department all while still centralizing reporting on global metrics used.
- Platform Updates, Roadmap, Launch prep - CSOD is the best an getting you what you need to make sure you staying up to day and new updates are easily handled. They are GREAT at this.
- Peer support for admin NEtworks
- Direct Client Support have ebbed and flowed over the years. A system of support focused on what the client wants for an experience rather than what CSOD want to deliver would be nice for permanent state of support.
- Different areas of the platform are developed at different rated, and not all areas are up to the same GUI. From an admin perspective having to navigate between multiple screen GUIs and navigate around obsolete but "still in use by some customers" features can be difficult to know if you should be using a feature or if its on its way out.
- Permissions / Security Roles - This is very complicated part of the system that needs some better recommendations and default settings with the ability to add templated security roles to the platform by the admin at any time. Pushed by CSOD. I would like to see a library of Security roles like LO, managed the same way.
- Online training
Support on-demand
- Support for Admins
- Ease of customization of your own portal
- Adapting to ever-changing platforms
- Some improvement is required for how Express class is entered.
Cornerstone-Modern and customizable LMS!
- Reporting: completely customized reporting modules allows us to have targeted and specific analytics
- Automated learning: The learning assignment tool enabled automatic and varied learning assignments to a variety of audiences.
- Performance reviews: Enable us to have very complicated and automated performance review assignments.
- The forms functionality is old and very "windows-95" looking, would love to see this improved.
- Building performance reviews can be very "steppy," we would love to see you be able to do this in the flow of work.
- I would also love to see the ability to customize the look and feel of the custom page widgets more.
Cornerstone Learning will be the Cornerstone of your Organization.
- Automatic recurring assignments are easy to get that refresher training out without needing to assign it fresh each time.
- Reporting 2.0 makes it easy to write and share your reports with just selected filters. Making it easy for people receiving it to just change what they need to see.
- Learning Admin Console makes it easy to peek at what is going on in your portal and open up connected reporting when needed.
- Success Center is a great resource for getting peer answers to questions and learning about the releases and suggesting changes that should be added to the roadmap.
- Their Product Support can take a long time to respond and/or give incomplete responses so you have to go back and forth to get the correct response.
- Certifications exist but are in bad need of an update to make them more user friendly as they are the only way to set an expiration date.
- Reporting 2.0 can have more latency issues then other parts of the system and it is always when you really need to grab that report.
HRIS plus Cornerstone OnDemand
- End-user friendly.
- Accessibility.
- Navigation.
- N/A
Cornerstone - An LMS for the People!
- Tier 1 Customer support
- Quarterly Releases
- Creating a community of customers
- Tier 2 support
- Groups functionality is antiquated
- Mobile app missing the ability to interact with Instructor Led training
Very good employee portal with several integrated modules
- Easy Learning
- Good recruiting processes
- Internal evaluations easier
- Maybe recruiting module has many parts not integrated between them
- I would like to delete some processes or objects now I can't
- Maybe more look and feel possibilities
- Online training
- in-person training
- no training
CSOD - pros & cons
- Tracks Required Training
- Easy Access to User Training Profile
- Ease of Use for System Administrators
- Certifications is an added expense to the Learning Suite
- Survey functionality should be improved
- Test Engine isn't the easiest administrative tool to use
Very good product
- Always innovates
- Constantly communicates updates
- listens to its customers
- Is consistent in its product
- Somewhat inconsistent with their customer relationship approach
- Not flexible with contracts
- can get expensive with add ons
One of the best tool on talent management
- Goal management
- Performance review
- Access and permission
- Succession plan
- Classroom management
- HR role
- Core HR
- Reporting
Cornerstone is powerful
- Uploading and viewing SCORM content is easy
- UI is sleek
- Curriculum view is great for learning tracks
- Certifications are not intuitive and tough to manage
- Custom certificates could be easier to customize
- Permission settings can be overwhelming
- Test Engine is pretty unintuitive to use
Sold LMS Experience and Great Customer Support Community
- Great User/client community
- Comprehensive and Evolving Client training program and certifications
- Regular enhancements based on client input and feedback
- Test/Assessment interface for users and admins
- More flexibility in triggers related to emails
- Reduce the cost on client training and certifications
A very extensive system, which is often difficult to use
- learning object assignment
- creating automatically groups of employees
- good reporting
- the LMS administration panel is non-intuitive and requires a lot of time to create anything
- Syncs with multiple software
- Continuous improvement on the products
- User site with great learning content, and communities of users.
- Some products are olders and needs updating (Certifications)
- DEIB: need for close captioning, option for preferred names, etc.
- Big learning curve! It takes a lot of time to get it running and be familiar with the product.
Cornerstone - You get what you pay for.
- A lot of companies use Cornerstone so there is a wide scope of users to refer to and learn from.
- It tracks training and learning well.
- Newer features are more user friendly.
- Large base of resources and training to learn functionality.
- Not always the most intuitive to use (recent updates have made some improvements to that).
- Most updates are for end user so the admin side is a bit more clunky.
- Previously service time has been slow (haven't had any recent issues).
- This doesn't have an interactive or live meeting platform within it you need to purchase one to integrate.
- There isn't a location to put vILT (virtual instructor led training) info such as a meeting link that you could copy and paste in. You have to have some integration and each cost money per year.
- limited budgets for Cornerstone are not the best. They have so much functionality but each piece is an additional amount of money. We only have one.
- The certifications do not function as they're supposed to. I was told by a rep not to use them.
- Curriculum Reversioning has had improvements but still gets messy VERY quickly. I also don't like the extra step to access training if it's in a curriculum. There should be an expand right on the transcript page so it's all visible in one place.
- Lacks built in Accessibility Features like an easy to use accommodation request for courses, captioning for videos (unless via YouTube and captioned on YouTube), Color settings for end users with low vision or color blindness.
- Resources attached to trainings aren't obvious thus I have to also add them as materials and link to them.
- Editing Transcripts or attendance is a pain, so if someone accidentally submits something it's a process to get it fixed.
- Everything costs money. Want to update your home page? It's a ticket and $, want to let people launch a meeting, you need an integration that has an annual cost, it makes budget conscious organizations suffer.
CSOD - It works
- UI/UX
- Support
- New options to create a better experience for our users
- Quick turn around time on support issues
- Larger file upload limits
- Transcript views - There is a glitch where some of the users are unable to immediately access modules or their transcripts after they have registered
Meh--we'd prefer another LMS
- SCORM compliant
- Users can be grouped and categorized in numerous ways
- Some components are highly configurable
- 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.
Cornerstone Learning Module
- Uploading content
- Reliable
- Curricula
- Reporting 2.0 needs to be correct before Custom Reports are retired.
- Uploading file sizes need to be raised.
- The Learning module seems to continually be placed on the back burner compared to HR.
Taking on a new LMS!
- Hosting video/scorm packages
- Ability to upload certificates/badges
- Integration with our HR Management Software
- Overall look and feel for employees
- More promotion of internal communities on the platform/easier access
- Easier access to support via chat
eLearning experience using Cornerstone
- Learning Assignments
- Management of Instructor Led Trainings
- eLearning Upload Compatibility
- Training Removal Tool
- Learning Object Revisions (Versioning)
- Training Equivalencies are complicated
- Versioning Learning Objects with Prework/Postwork