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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
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  • Assignments (181)
    7.8
    78%
  • Learning reporting & analytics (183)
    7.7
    77%
  • Learning administration (184)
    7.6
    76%

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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 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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Community Insights

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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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Tina Pegar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
1
We have a single centralized resources for Cornerstone Support (end user and superuser support) and a network of training administrators across the organization that manage their own training and help to make system decisions. We call it the federated model and it helps to keep autonomy for the training groups but they have the support they need.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
120
There are multiple central teams managing the various areas of the LMS:
Support teams: different support lines that offer guidance, troubleshooting, connection issues, DQ analysis to role authorization, role supervision and tool customization.
Training teams: Catalogue and offer management, Distribution, Group and report management, ILT management, Digital content creation and QA testing the scorms.
Jamie Drahos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
3
We have one system admin (myself) and two learning admins. The system admin is also the global process owner for the system and ultimately has final say with how the system is run and managed. The learning admins have user rights that are elevated beyond the standard user so they can support with troubleshooting courses, uploading new courses, user account access etc. The system admin should have a strong technical background and process management experience. The learning admins need to have a base knowledge of technology and a willingness to learn new skills.
December 07, 2021

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
1
We only have one person who administers the system and it is only a part of their job. Most of the functions can be performed with minimal technical expertise. CSOD offers a lot of training to support admins.
In general and admin should have:
  • Some technical ability
  • Good process mindset
  • Creative
  • Detail oriented
Mark Schroeder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
3
Initially we had 1 System Admin. This person handled all implementation and config. over the years we have created admins for each functional area. Performance and Succession, Recruiting / Learning Management Systems. So now those folks handle executing day to day admin tasks in their relative areas and we have 1 overall platform config admin. Total of 4.
Elisse Basque | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
3
  • Technical Skills and experience working with similar types of technology.
  • Reporting (understanding how other systems operate is a benefit also knowledge of excel helps and how pivot tables work as the functionality of reporting 2.0 is sort of similar).
  • Research skills - Cornerstone OnDemand is highly robust and customizable, you have to be comfortable with digging into things and testing functionality.
Taline Goorjian | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
4
We are using a center of excellence model of support for our org. One Manager with three practitioners who support a virtual customer service booth with Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 support tickets. We have an internal Service Level Agreement and our turnaround is an average of 1.6 days. We have created a variety of self-service tools and job aids to enable learners to help themselves directly inside our portal.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
5
People require:
  • good IT skills
  • a logical problem solving ability
  • ability to explain processes in an easy to understand way
  • an abundance of patience
  • the ability to analyse business needs and determine the best tool within Cornerstone to use to create a solution
  • a systematic approach
  • willingness to experiment with different ways to find the best solution
  • willingness to continually learn and improve their skills
Melissa Odom | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
6
This is a bit of a tricky question as the word "support" can mean many things. We have one system administrator (me) and I spend a few hours each day at the most doing system admin support for Cornerstone. That is for both learning and performance. We also have a whole Learning and Development department who do much more than support the system but they provide expertise in helping our learners in Cornerstone. We develop our own curriculum and create our own learning so that is about 4 people and they create content, upload the content, troubleshoot users who have problems with online completions etc. We also do many large events each month for instructor led training (ILT) and we have three people supporting that - their Cornerstone involvement is creating events and sessions and managing who is enrolled in those sessions. We have a compliance team that verifies attendance at those ILTs and handles the CPE compliance of those that went to training.
Donna Frazier, PHR | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
0
The CSOD tool is very robust. We probably used only 15% of the true functionality. It often frustrated though even our own HMI engineers and there are sections in the system that were not designed with users in mind. Too many clicks as one small example. The system is very robust. Someone with a strong HRIS background and some IT knowledge would be best to administer the tool effectively.
Mark McConnell, APTD | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
5

Most of our in-house support staff provide support as a smaller portion of their overall responsibilities. We have five individuals whose responsibilities in the system are divided along these lines:

1) Lead Administrator/Governance Lead - Tasked with overall system configuration, governance, and testing support during quarterly releases. Also responsible for maintaining the relationship with Cornerstone support staff

2) Internal Training Coordinator (x2) - Tasked with tactical administration including entry of classes, rosters, simple reporting etc.

3) Dealer Network Training Coordinator (x2) - Tasked with system administration supporting our respective dealership networks

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
10
We have elearning designers, curriculum designers, facilitators, and LMS administrators on our team to support L&D at our organization. We also partner with site-level HR and safety experts to conduct and log Instructor-Led Training sessions.
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