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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
Cornerstone Learning Video
Cornerstone Performance Video
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 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Well suited for mid-sized to larger companies - may be expensive for small companies
  • Companies with a heavy need for computer-based training (compliance or otherwise) and basic automation
  • Companies who have dedicated IT/dev support can leverage access to the Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD) APIs for customization of certain functions - smaller companies with less support/smaller budget will struggle to use these more complex options
Alex Hurtado | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
They are great when it comes to LMS. Now that they purchased Saba that means they truly lead in that field. Their performance module works fantastic for your needs and plays extremely well with LMS. They have all the tools necessary to have the life cycle of your employees have a successful time in their job if the system is used to it's full potential.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The Learning product has fantastic functionality. A potential area to explore are the integration points between [Cornerstone OnDemand] and your other HR systems. We use ADP for our HRIS and have a daily feed that updates [Cornerstone OnDemand], but it's not as seamless as we would like.
Taline Goorjian | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone is well suited as an LMS for compliance, however it is also rapidly developing LXP type features such as playlists and suggested learning AI for learner home carousels that will provide the user more and more with the ability to shape their own learning experience. It all depends how the org configures their portal as the potential to enable these LXP features is entirely up to the company administratively.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We moved from an on-premise LMS years ago and switched to Cornerstone. Being in the cloud was a much better solution than what we had. It was nice to always stay up to date with the software's latest version, etc. So Cornerstone does well in that aspect. However, it lacks some of the full-fledged Admin functionality/usability that other LMSs have. We had to adapt quite a bit and give up quite a bit in that aspect to gain the benefits of using Cornerstone. It was an adjustment, but we learned to go with it. Having over 100k users in the system, it just sometimes is NOT very easy to perform tasks that you'd think an LMS should do very basically and by default. Probably never an issue for smaller companies using it though.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It seems to me that Cornerstone OnDemand is suited for large bureaucracies that have not been exposed to current technology, so they don't know how many features are lacking or how far behind they are with their user interface.

I'm not sure I can add more, but [I feel like] Cornerstone OnDemand [is] a system that has been cobbled together badly, so every single change requires an abundance of steps and "touches" to different parts of the system. I wish you allowed me to rate them "0".
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If your organization has either solid cross-functional business processes or you are moving in that direction, Cornerstone OnDemand will serve your needs well. If, however, you will need to operate the system within a highly self-contained silo, you may not be able to fully realize the benefits of the system and may struggle to find the value.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited:
  • Organizations with performance review processes that they do not need to customize.
  • Organizations that already use the product in other use cases and are looking to centralize all their HR and performance management details in one place.

Not well suited:
  • Any organizations that need to customize question content, question flow, or the user experience.
  • Tech-first environments where employees will feel frustrated by the user experience of being logged out quickly or have their work not saved.
February 05, 2021

Cornerstone experience

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
(+) For large companies where the focus on training is high. The learning suite is very complete, with several possibilities to provide training.
(-) For smaller companies (5000) the cost benefit may not be worth it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my role, the Reporting 2.0 functionality of Cornerstone OnDemand has been a great improvement in the way reports are run and records are able to be kept. To be able to get reporting down to such a granular level has been such a help. It's also great to be able to share the reports with other individuals so they can run the reports themselves when they need it and don't have to wait for you!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone OnDemand is well suited for having a single or almost-single source of training for a very large organization. The ease of putting a course into the system and making it available across the enterprise or pushing it out as an assignment with a due date is great. It also handles the ability to push out large amounts of training to users through assignments pretty well, although sometimes it does take a while to process.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone OnDemand has been a great asset in managing compliance training. There is a great reporting system to show when employees completed their training and who has missed it. Their content is engaging and relevant. I would like the opportunity to purchase smaller packages of content or customize which courses I am purchasing based on my employee needs.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone OnDemand is well suited for large organizations where existing systems may need to be integrated into training, such as an HRIS or Salesforce. Organizations may also need either monetary resources for a third-party vendor or internal programming resources in order to customize or get a fuller experience from the system. Smaller, more nimble organizations may find that Cornerstone is too large and not agile enough for their needs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I really enjoy the learning platform. I wish that our company would communicate more across the back office because HR launched Kronos and knowing that we would have done everything in CSOD with the other suites they offer would have been nice since everything would be all in one place.
September 24, 2020

Cornerstone is a great LMS.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone is a very powerful tool. It does take time to learn the system. It really does need a dedicated administrator to keep it afloat in a company. It isn't a plug and play software. A company that is willing to invest in the development of its employees will find great benefits from using the power of this system. It just doesn't happen overnight.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is better suited for larger organizations that need complex customization and world language translation, especially since larger organizations will have the manpower to keep up with the administration of such a robust system. For those who want simple uploading and tracking or for those who don't have dedicated LMS admins to keep it organized, a platform with a simpler layout and set of options might be a better choice.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone is well suited for when company's need a robust LMS that is scalable and user-friendly. I only use it for Learning, but the features available to us as administrators allows us to tailor the user experience and curate a budding learning culture with simple workflows and processes. The community is large and teeming with clients who are using it on so many different scales, and who are willing to help with sharing best practices and tips. Where I think Cornerstone can be less appropriate is the daunting counts of available features - keep your business needs in mind and don't feel overwhelmed with all it has to offer. Start small and expand as your business evolves.
September 24, 2020

Happy with CSOD

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is a great tool to use for onboarding a new hire and presenting all company information in one place. I love that the training can be set up as a punch list where you have to complete training in order and if you want to go back to review something, you have the option to do so in your transcript.
September 24, 2020

Local Government Loves CSOD

Wendy Brodnick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I really love the functionality, security, and the ability to use the system in a way that fits our needs. Our Sheriff Office is using Observation Checklist and OJT to manage rifle qualifications. The Calendar is awesome and we use it constantly and got great feedback from employees love to see the offerings at a glance.

Our eLearning created through Storyline looks great and is easy to upload SCORM to the system and "curate" for the learner with appropriate.
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