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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)
    7.5
    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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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
Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD) is used across the whole organization for employees and contractors alike. It is used for compliance training, safety training, some on the job training, and performance reviews. We are currently working to expand the training catalog in order to leverage CSOD for career improvement, in conjunction with a career framework that is being created for the whole organization
Alex Hurtado | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are huge users from an LMS standpoint. We create content that we even sell to other similar pet care industries or users. We are always on the leading edge of beta testing and using the latest functionalities that CSOD produces. Our hospitals are in constant need of training whether it is for current knowledge or for career development and we use the Performance module in combination to further make that happen.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We were struggling with employees consistently meeting their course assignment deadlines. Our company needed a way to track the regulatory courses assigned to all of our employees. We purchased [Cornerstone OnDemand] in 2016 for that purpose. Since we began using [Cornerstone OnDemand], we have been able to successfully manage all course assignments and no employees have been late in completing their courses. The best part - [Cornerstone OnDemand] has become a major part of our efforts to shift our learning culture to focus beyond just regulatory training.
Taline Goorjian | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a retail grocery organization with 80% undesked, frontline workers. 20% of our employees support with distribution and supply chain, technology and merchandising. There is a vast array of quality assurance, food safety, and sustainably sourcing experts who support the excellence of our products in our stores. Our Cornerstone content ranges from new member onboarding, operations, product management and leadership topics to program management and microsoft tools.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is currently being used by the entire enterprise. This includes all Employees, Contingent Workers, Dealers, Service Partners, etc. We use it for a centralized place for Learning, both compliance and departmental specific training. It is one of our main LMSs used. Being decentralized a bit, there are now other systems that are used in conjunction with Cornerstone OnDemand.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone OnDemand is being used by our Training department for instructor-led training as well as new hire compliance training. We are currently using the learning suite across one division of the organization.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use CSOD throughout our whole organization for our Learning Management System (LMS). It addresses the problems of learning management, regulatory agency compliance for continuing education; delivering education, and reporting/tracking.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

As the Cornerstone Systems, Learning and Performance administrator, I have been able to provide a wide variety of both learning and performance solutions to our organisation.

In the performance space we have created Observation Checklists to assess technical competencies, and also for Quarterly Performance Reviews using role-related competencies. Managers love the structured format and the ability to add observation notes on an ongoing basis.

In a nutshell, Cornerstone has enabled us to grow and develop our people at the same time as fulfilling management reporting and audit requirements!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone OnDemand is a great product to use for learning. The specific way I use the product at this time is to deliver, track, and document all the compliance training that is provided to each employee. The new Reporting 2.0 tool has an amazing functionality called Exception Reporting. This allows you to ensure that all persons required to take training have in fact been assigned the training. This is extremely helpful to ensure that no employee is missed and everyone meets their annual training requirements. Additionally, Cornerstone has an amazing group of individuals that are available when you have a question. There are multiple ways to get assistance, from the online Help Center to over-the-phone Office Hours to topic-specific training with their trainers. I highly recommend using Cornerstone OnDemand as your next LMS.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cornerstone OnDemand as our enterprise-wide employee training LMS. This addressed our desire to streamline the number of sites and applications our employees needed to use to complete training. The biggest assistance having an enterprise-wide solution provides is the ease of pushing out and tracking training for our very large employee base.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone is used across the organization for GxP training and other learning purposes. It is integrated with HRCore for employee related data and other upstream systems to maintain data feeds. CSOD is also used for content coming in from different external vendors like LinkedIn, Skillsoft, Coursera. CSOD Learning is the one point platform for all learning related needs.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are utilizing Cornerstone OnDemand as our primary learning management system. We currently only use the learning module and content from Cornerstone. It allows us to issue and track compliance training throughout our entire organization. It also provides us with the opportunity to offer personal development training, technical training, and management training on an as-needed basis.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone OnDemand learning and performance modules are used across a manufacturing organization with facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia. It is used for training manufacturing staff, salespeople, and support staff in compliance and developmental training. It is also used for new hire and annual performance management and talent review and 9-Box succession planning.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it across most of our brands and plan on expanding it to all brands that fall under our umbrella. It makes it easy, one stop shop for all of our learning materials. We can use it for our own personal creation training and others we have purchased. We also host ILTs and others though the platform.
September 24, 2020

Cornerstone is a great LMS.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone is being used across the organization and we are looking to expand it into the businesses of our acquisitions. We mainly use the system for onboarding new employees. We created curricula with homegrown videos and use dynamic assignment to assign to users once they start the organization or transition within. We also have 3rd party content in our system.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Cornerstone OnDemand to deliver relevant training content to all of our users across the globe. It helps ensure we are delivering the right content, at the right time and in a consistent manner.

Our vision for our LMS was to:
  • Become the go-to place for all training and development.
  • Act as a stepping stone for the career development path.
  • Effectively engage users in the learning experience.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone is used by our whole organization. At the moment we use it as a basic internal communication tool for employees and mainly as an LMS. It helps distribute online training, send reminder emails, and track and report on training for compliance. I helps with automated training emails and report generation.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cornerstone OnDemand is being used org-wide at our company. Cornerstone has been able to address many business needs such as: managing our overall compliance training program, ILT and (more recently) virtual ILT or vILT for many of our business partners such as Recruiting and Product training, learning content curation and beginning stages of self-interest in professional development.
September 24, 2020

Local Government Loves CSOD

Wendy Brodnick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
CSOD is being used for the entire Placer County employee organization. We use it for our compliance training, ILT management, eLearning content library, and is the data system of record. The CSOD system has an API integration with our HR system, Workday. Additionally we have several large departments that use the system heavily to track very specific qualifications and certifications as well as provide training to our client base that is required by contracts held with the State of California.
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