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Cornerstone OnDemand

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What is Cornerstone OnDemand?

Cornerstone OnDemand 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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Popular Features

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  • Course catalog or library (185)
    8.4
    84%
  • Assignments (181)
    7.8
    78%
  • Learning reporting & analytics (183)
    7.7
    77%
  • Learning administration (184)
    7.5
    75%

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What is Cornerstone OnDemand?

Cornerstone OnDemand 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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Features

Onboarding

Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.

8.2
Avg 7.3

Performance and Goals

Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.

8.3
Avg 7.3

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

7.8
Avg 6.8

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.

9.1
Avg 7.2

Recruiting / ATS

Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.

8.6
Avg 7.3

Learning Management

Features of LMS and LCMS systems, related to designing, administering, and consuming learning content in an educational, corporate, or on-the-job context.

7.5
Avg 7.1
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Product Details

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 7,000 customers and 90M 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

Cornerstone OnDemand Screenshots

Screenshot of A personalized, modern user experience and self-service capabilities to engage employees, ensure productivity, and centralize employee dataScreenshot of With Cornerstone Learning, go beyond compliance and training - truly develop an engaged and collaborative workforce.Screenshot of Cornerstone Recruiting takes care of all talent acquisition needs and provides candidates with an amazing experience.Screenshot of With Cornerstone Performance, benchmark your people's performance, align them with your strategy, and provide feedback that matters.Screenshot of Cornerstone HR offers a personalized, modern user experience and self-service capabilities to engage employees, ensure productivity, and centralize employee data.Screenshot of With Content Anytime, quickly deliver hundreds of eLearning courses covering key soft-skills such as communication, time management, leadership, teamwork, and emotional intelligence.Screenshot of With Cornerstone Careers, provide continuous career development and expert coaching​.Screenshot of Actionable insights

Cornerstone OnDemand Videos

Cornerstone Products Overview Unified Talent Management Video
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Cornerstone Content Anytime Video

Cornerstone OnDemand Integrations

Cornerstone OnDemand Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAll
Supported Languages50 languages

Frequently Asked Questions

Cornerstone OnDemand 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.

Brassring, SilkRoad Life Suite, and Workday Human Capital Management are common alternatives for Cornerstone OnDemand.

Reviewers rate Candidate ranking and Candidate search highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Cornerstone OnDemand are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Cornerstone OnDemand is a versatile platform that has been widely used across various industries for different purposes. Users have found the software to be helpful in streamlining employee development and engagement, compliance training, and performance management. The platform allows organizations to track and assign training, host both in-house and virtual sessions, and automate processes for annual performance reviews and long-term succession planning. Additionally, Cornerstone OnDemand is effective for large-scale compliance training, offering general training, and serving as an API for internal and external candidates.

One of the key benefits of Cornerstone OnDemand is its ability to centralize all employee-related information in one place, making it a convenient solution for learning, performance management, recruiting, onboarding, talent management, and compensation modules. Organizations have used the software to consolidate processes and HR systems on a single platform, which has proved to be highly efficient. The platform's user-friendliness has garnered positive feedback from users, particularly in managing change management and assigning specific e-learning to multiple departments worldwide.

Moreover, during the Covid pandemic, Cornerstone OnDemand has enabled uninterrupted learning by allowing organizations to continue training remotely. It serves as a global Learning Management System solution that can be utilized to manage corporate training records for both online and classroom instruction. The software also offers social learning platforms for cohorts and tools for completing observation checklists.

Furthermore, Cornerstone OnDemand caters to the individualized needs of organizations with complex setups by allowing unique settings across multiple divisions. It can be used to document training for quality management systems, health and safety protocols, product knowledge for field personnel, and more. The software also helps non-profit organizations move their training programs online while reaching a broader audience.

In summary, Cornerstone OnDemand has proven to be a valuable tool for developing employees' skills and engaging them effectively in various industries. It facilitates compliance training, automates performance management processes, centralizes employee-related information, supports remote learning, and caters to the individualized needs of organizations. Users have praised its user-friendliness and its ability to streamline processes, making it a versatile and indispensable solution for many businesses.

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Great for users once it is rolled-out. It's easy to access materials and find new training opportunities. Great way to roll out new compliance trainings and then follow-up with reporting. The reporting feature of Cornerstone allows you to easily customize and pull data. This is been crucial to many business functions that impact our entire organization.
September 22, 2020

New to Cornerstone

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This platform seems best suited for an environment where the users are able to conduct self-paced learning. We are currently utilizing this platform in an instructor led format, often times in a remote location. This has been a struggle as we are configuring the system for our use (but an understood struggle). I would also say that this platform appears to struggle with integration of classic PowerPoint documents, especially when animation, voice-over, and other functions are present.
September 22, 2020

First time Cornerstone user

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are really new to Cornerstone, so for now I can only speak to the automation and how easy it is to navigate. To someone considering using Cornerstone if you need to automate, expand your reporting, and have easy access to your employees' relevant information, then Cornerstone is the one for you.
September 22, 2020

CSOD Enables Action

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone is great if you know where you want to go but can be overwhelming in terms of options if there isn't a strong direction already in mind. It's important to know what you want before getting started so that implementation goes smoothly. External implementation can be costly so the system wouldn't make sense for smaller organizations under 500 users.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone is well suited for organization with a straight forward structure. The LMS is still the primary focus and has quite a bit of support. While we have successfully utilized the performance management tool, the compensation management component is lacking.
September 22, 2020

LMS to lead the rest

Ryan Mattiuzzo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
CSOD is best used in an organization with centralized learning governance. For organizations without a centralized learning governance can become troublesome with maintenance issues. Allowing multiple system admins with different levels of access and no reporting control has many drawbacks. The system is great for managing training and offerings but can be harder when there are multiple admins adding content and training events.
September 22, 2020

CSOD makes it easy!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone is great for a large organization where bells and whistles aren't so much a nice-to-have, but a need-to-have. We couldn't do what we do on a smaller-scale LMS because of the functionality that CSOD provides behind the scenes helps cut, if not totally eliminate, our administrative tasks.
September 22, 2020

Very user friendly!

Elke Meurs | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone is very well suited for online training! There are a lot of different ways to offer online learning, for example via videos, e-learnings and materials. There is also a very good opportunity to report on the use of online trainings by employees. This is very interesting, because it allows us to improve the online learning further within the company.
September 22, 2020

Cornerstone OnDemand LMS

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone is well suited to fit large and small scale clients globally. It excels at ease of administration and making things easy on those that do not ordinarily manage technology. Cornerstone OnDemand is optimal for organizations that are looking to automate processes and provide solid user experiences across multiple different learning opportunities.
September 22, 2020

Solid LMS Platform

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone OnDemand is well suited for companies that want a robust learning and training platform and are willing to invest in properly managing it. A company that does not have someone who will be able to devote the time to learning or managing the system may not find it to be very beneficial. It's the sort of thing that you get out of it what you put into it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I believe Cornerstone OnDemand is well suited for any company! You can assign certain courses that you think would be most helpful to certain people or departments. You can also give the option to let your employees take whatever course they want so they can develop skills they are personally interested in.
September 22, 2020

Excellent LMS!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Despite the few cons I mentioned, my overall experience with Cornerstone has been incredibly positive. Our CSM is very attentive and solution oriented. Anytime I've had an issue their client success center and staff have been able to resolve it. They continually work to improve the LMS and do seem to listen to client suggestions.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone OnDemand is excellent for large organizations (1000 users or more) where there is a diverse set of users and needs. Perfect for organizations that need robust security roles that allow for granular application to various use cases. Excellent for all organizations that have high compliance needs.

Not worth the effort for small organizations (<1000 users) where the need for security and automation is low or compliance needs are few.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone OnDemand is a leader in the Learning Management space, provides robust reporting capabilities, and has an extensive content library. They also have a great product in talent to really help you identify gaps in your talent and where training opportunities lie. The Talent Management suite is lighter in the recruiting space and isn't as robust as some of the other ATS leaders on the market.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I enjoy Cornerstone OnDemand. I think they have excellent customer service and are always willing to help. The training on the platform is easy to view and engaging. I also love the short quizzes at the end to ensure desired learning from the training. Overall, a straightforward and effective product to use!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone OnDemand has a good product and continues to improve their product to be better suited to fit the needs and wants of their customers. That being said, they have significantly increased their price and implementation costs which may become a big issue if not already. Their support is average and assigned contacts to clients continually fluctuates. Of all the competitors in their industry, they probably have the best overall product to offer and it is all made by them and not something acquired of which they try to fit in.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The LMS is good and has great capabilities, however the rest of the system is very unfriendly and cumbersome. Not enough admin capabilities and too many calls to the tech team to fix simple mistakes made by admins or end users.
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