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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 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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Score 9 out of 10
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It is being used by the whole organization in many workflows and internal procedures. From hr we try to launch all new projects within the cornerstone would be the employee portal.
  • 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
It's 360 HR software and you can launch many different projects in the same app. Learning scenarios are the best option in Cornerstone OnDemand.
Onboarding (3)
76.66666666666667%
7.7
New hire portal
60%
6.0
Manager tracking tools
70%
7.0
Compliance tracking and reporting
100%
10.0
Performance and Goals (5)
82%
8.2
Corporate goal setting
80%
8.0
Subordinate goal setting
80%
8.0
Individual goal setting
90%
9.0
Line-of sight-visibility
70%
7.0
Performance tracking
90%
9.0
Performance Management (10)
75%
7.5
Performance plans
90%
9.0
Plan weighting
70%
7.0
Manager note taking
90%
9.0
Performance improvement plans
80%
8.0
Review status tracking
80%
8.0
Rater nomination workflow
70%
7.0
Review reminders
60%
6.0
Workflow restrictions
60%
6.0
Multiple review frequency
70%
7.0
Reporting
80%
8.0
Succession Planning (4)
65%
6.5
Create succession plans/pools
80%
8.0
Candidate ranking
60%
6.0
Candidate search
60%
6.0
Candidate development
60%
6.0
Recruiting / ATS (15)
58.666666666666664%
5.9
Job Requisition Management
80%
8.0
Company Website Posting
40%
4.0
Publish to Social Media
60%
6.0
Job Search Site Posting
50%
5.0
Customized Application Form
40%
4.0
Resume Management
70%
7.0
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
70%
7.0
Candidate Search
70%
7.0
Applicant Tracking
40%
4.0
Collaboration
60%
6.0
Task Creation and Delegation
50%
5.0
Email Templates
60%
6.0
User Permissions
60%
6.0
Notifications and Alerts
70%
7.0
Reporting
60%
6.0
Learning Management (11)
82.72727272727273%
8.3
Course authoring
70%
7.0
Course catalog or library
80%
8.0
Player/Portal
80%
8.0
Learning content
70%
7.0
Mobile friendly
90%
9.0
Progress tracking & certifications
80%
8.0
Assignments
90%
9.0
Compliance management
80%
8.0
Learning administration
90%
9.0
Learning reporting & analytics
90%
9.0
Social learning
90%
9.0
  • Increase employee engagement
  • Get more training completion
  • More entre candidates
We chose Cornerstone OnDemand because its a global World product and our trust gets higher. And the integrated modules
699
all areas. Cornerstone is being used by all the company and we have lots of areas and departments using it.
4
customer service, general digital skills, patience and a love for what he/she does
  • training platform (and reporting)
  • recruiting portals
  • develop people (evaluations, goals, competencies...)
  • for onboarding. that was not in out roadmap initially
  • to have diferent recruiting portals
  • to make new goals policies for the company
  • more training on the way
  • new ways of recruiting
  • develop evaluations with diferent approvers and workflows...
overall i am happy with the tool and would choose it again if i were looking for it again. complete, continually developing and with good support and customer service.
Yes
Before Cornerstone we work with Talentia HCM and it was very strong to change anything and we cant use the information for reports and to get value.
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Prior Experience with the Product
Maybe the Product Reputation with the features related with reporting and exploit information
we change our processes at the cornerstone implementation to make easier. Some times companies have very difficult workflows and the change of the HR tool force to make them easier as us.
maybe to have more time between modules implementation would be better for testing all procedures. Its important to have very clear the workflows before start and have consense between all the parts becouse if you want to change something after implementing that could be a little difficult. But these are only our tips.
  • Third-party professional services
INTEGRA SOLUCIONES. ( https://integra-soluciones.net/en/ )
Yes
First of all we separate each module in this order: HR / LMS / RECRUITING / PERFOMANCE / SUCESSION... then for each module we made a Discovery Session, then the implementation company presented a proposal, and then we make changes and details of that module. We repeat this process with all modules. for us it was a good way to do it.
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
In this case I recommend that the adaptation be fast because if we make the process slow we will have the same problems and the slowness of the change is added. We must organize ourselves well and have early adopters and partners to help teach how to adapt to change but all within a short period of time.
  • internal training
  • internal processes adaptation
  • configuration documentation
  • Online training
  • in-person training
  • no training
we use also to admin all our training in person events and sessions. Its easy to admin this kind of trainings and automatize some processes we have. Also de user experience and the integration with other systems helps to the employees to use more. All modules integrated oriented to develop people is the principal reason to have CSOD. The training administration is very complete and allows to automate many processes.
very complete tool thinking at the user side and at the admin side. Continuosly launching new features in their roadmap always adapting to the companies needs. I think is the best module of the software. Maybe i will make some changes at the admin or reporting part but time by time. cornerstone's own authoring tool is a bit simple but the platform allows publishing courses created with other tools and its tracking is fully integrated.
I think it is necessary to have an initial training and to test the processes several times before creating them in real. Perhaps at the beginning it may seem a little complicated but with the accompaniment of someone expert in a short time you can be autonomous. I recommend this initial training and the creation of real cases. The configuration part is very important and automations / communications must be taken into account from the beginning.
I would like to have more deep administration options and to be more flexible. We must adapt our processes to Cornerstone OnDemand and I would like to Cornerstone OnDemand more adaptable to us.
the configuration of the application is known when you have been working with it for some time, so it is important to configure it with someone who knows the preferences of Cornerstone to know the possibilities it has before starting to configure it without knowing it.
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
I have advanced technical knowledge so I have been able to change certain aspects myself and help other clients to do so.
Some - we have added small pieces of custom code
also I have advanced technical knowledge so I have been able to change certain aspects myself and help other clients to do so.
I am working with the integration with external reporting systems such as PowerBI to be able to exploit all the information. I have also implemented Google Analytics and little by little I am getting very useful extra information.
A little show to solve the case but always I get a solution
No
Yes
Yes it would be solved but was an important bug
They usually solve all my cases. Sometimes I have had to resort to my gps to escalate the problem or I have had to find the solution myself but there is always someone in support willing to help you and they know the product inside out.
for uses in general is easy to use, its not too much necessary to give support continuosly. But at the configuration and administration there is a little difficult to manage some things, there are lots of options and its important to have a global admin vision when you make any change or implement a new process.
  • learning portal
  • onboarding workflows
  • development tasks
  • configure workflows (recruiting, develop...)
  • competencies bank and models
  • some changes in tasks launched are difficult to change
Yes
for learning there are an app called LEARN / CORNERSTONE LEARN very easy to use. I would like to have an integral app with the rest of modules but maybe in future.
Cornerstone has many options that it separates into companies, areas and departments... even at the job level. This is a very useful feature to deploy an application with different options according to profile.
I haven't really had any major availability problems. The service is practically impeccable but it is true that at times, due to server and latency problems, the application has been slower. But these have been specific issues that have resolved themselves.
As mentioned in the previous point, the application is fast in general. There are many aspects in the companies that can influence this speed: firewall, antivirus... etc. and the servers can have problems. But in general everything works at a sufficient speed. There are also daily stability reports that show us the status of the servers in case we notice any problems.
Every day they have more and more implementations through their marketplace and make the process easier without having to do major developments.
  • AZURE
  • Linkedin
Azure SSO was important to us and it was a very simple process with a 30 minute online meeting and the integration with Linkedin although not as complete as we would like is very quick.
  • PowerBI
  • HR Access (Sopra Steria)
In the case of PowerBI there are no official connectors to connect with Cornerstone but it is true that through APIs something could be done although it is complicated. In the case of HR Access integration is a project where the two applications must hang their data on an intermediate server. Something difficult and expensive to implement at the moment.
  • Single Signon
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
  • AppExchange or similar marketplace
no for us
It is very useful and beneficial for clients that the integrations they make with other companies are posted in the Marketplace and make Cornerstone has greater potential. It is a benefit for clients to have this and that new ones are appearing every day. The reporting part if I would like to not need a Reporting API and that as clients we could connect directly with tools like PowerBI to the database. It is something to consider.
The treatment of customers at Cornerstone is very special. Few companies follow up so closely and continuously on the progress and expectations of companies. There are many avenues of contact, and it is appreciated that the vendor is vigilant in this way.
We deal directly with Cornerstone. The integration was with another company but the purchase was directly with Cornerstone's salesperson who made it very easy for us.
As I have said before, I have no doubt that the services of the Cornerstone sales people were very good. In particular, our salesperson spent a lot of time in contact with us to make the process go smoothly. Perhaps being a large company in some cases the times were slowed down but it is something normal to take into account.
Mainly the final price and the contract period were the two terms to be negotiated.
It is important to be familiar with the terms and annual increases in licenses and other aspects of the contract. I recommend analyzing this from the beginning and the permanence is relevant because Cornerstone updates its modules and brings out new features that may allow you to leave a module to acquire another.
transparency and mutual adaptation. Not all HR applications meet all expectations and we have to look for the ones that best fit our processes and have integrated modules. That versus price and permanence are details to take into account.
Yes
is a transparent process because it is a cloud-based application that provides quarterly updates to all customers.
  • we do not spend time
  • transparent process
  • new funcionalities each quarter
  • adaptations to current events
  • news
  • customer suggestions implement
Yes
because in this application all customers always move to new versions automatically and we don't want to stay old.
No
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