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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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November 17, 2021

New to Cornerstone

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Manager assigning training
  • User searching for training
  • Training topics being recommended based on user
  • Administrative setup
  • Integration with other enterprise software
  • Creating a master catalog of courses
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cornerstone offered us the best opportunity to utilise the same provider for the whole of the employee lifecycle.
  • High levels of cooperation between Cornerstone and us also aided the easy configuration of the system. Whenever we faced any particular difficulties, Cornerstone was able to organise a workshop to demonstrate how to address and overcome them.
  • Functionalities and the possibility to use a SAAS module are quite flexible to client environment.
  • Features proposed by the system are mainly what the business needs
  • Can be more "HR Admin oriented" instead of end-user oriented.
  • Improve HR Core module.
  • Enhanced new functionalities to cover 100% needs.
  • Some current difficulties with GPS but mitigate with support of CSM
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User friendly and attractive website design.
  • It offers the ability to do online training, or also track face to face, on the job training.
  • It's continuously improving with new features to keep up with the growing demand for online learning.
  • Rather simple admin interface.
  • Some things are too intricate to set up. Emails, for example, are very time-intensive when you are trying to set up 20 reminder emails for training, and you have to do each one individually, instead of copying and pasting.
  • Missing functionality of being able to merge employee files, and include any documents you attached in one of the files. This is a big hardship for us.
  • I wish users could assign training using a checklist type page. Many people want to be able to assign things in bulk.
November 16, 2021

Cornerstone

Jessica Hunter | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Nice library of content
  • Ability to set goals visible to all, and align throughout the organization
  • Development plan creation and tracking
  • Better support - dedicated and quicker customer service/problem resolution would be nice
  • More customizable solutions
  • Simpler user interface for admins
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • great user community (always ready for help)
  • great online help and release documentation
  • new features are available 4 times per year
  • client suggestions are ignored or not addressed seriously
  • quality and responsiveness of customer support has to be improved
  • some areas in the system are in outdated design
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Host next generation content like Virtual Reality modules.
  • Have a dynamic report generation feature.
  • Has a seamless integration with HR database of SAP.
  • The evaluation or feedback feature for all trainings.
  • The bulk upload of trainees data especially for Instructor Led Trainings.
  • The unavailability or lack of clarity of information in certain help and support pages.
  • The after sales support.
November 16, 2021

The Learning Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Innovative solutions.
  • Easy reporting.
  • Mobile app!
  • Some delays in addressing pain points.
  • SSO can be very detailed and difficult to manage.
  • Cornerstone needs to work on developing its trainers, the training they provide can be dull and not helpful.
November 16, 2021

Good System Overall

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy end user experience
  • Provides updates to the platforms regularly
  • Feeds into other platforms within Cornerstone OnDemand
  • Customer service when experiencing technical issues
  • Updating outdated features
  • Providing quick support to admins
Jennifer Spohn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • They genuinely care about their customers success with the product.
  • Their tier 1 support is top notch.
  • When they update a piece of functionality, they LISTEN to recommendations given by the people who use [it] regularly.
  • The groups tool is antiquated and in need of an update pretty badly.
  • Tier 2 support is hit or miss. I have had several escalated tickets this year that have been very frustrating to resolve due to the tech it reading notes, asking me questions I've provided, not digging into the issue before responding.
  • They have a space called Suggestion City where customers can submit ideas on how to improve upon the functionality and can be upvoted by the community. I would like to see more of an effort to address the things that have been out there for years and have the most votes.
November 14, 2021

Best in Class

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tracks learning for individual users
  • woks well with online SCORM and AICC Content
  • supports an awesome user community
  • Support can be inconsistent
  • documentation has recently gotten less accurate
  • the CSM model has changed and we have gone through 4 CSMs in 2 years.
November 13, 2021

Learning is Fun!!

Jennifer LONGINE | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • CSS helps a lot by responding to our question in the configuration of the website
  • Update and review on news featured is appreciate
  • Team support is relevant
  • Reporting
  • Mobile experience
  • Knowledge assessment
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User friendly, ease of use for both managers and employees
  • Allows us to integrate all of our HR needs into 1 system
  • It's search and sort options in Performance Management can be improved, more options to sort evaluations outside of using reporting
  • Customer service needs live people behind it.
Marie Cheshier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Hosting, launching, and tracking online training
  • Robust reporting on almost anything in the system
  • Very customizable platform
  • Ability to easily separate and group users
  • Could be more mobile-friendly
  • Some user interfaces (like ILT) still need improvement
  • Odd permission/data rules that can make tasks more difficult
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The platform is extremely configurable allowing the flexibility to support multiple business cases.
  • Cost effective.
  • Good reporting functionality.
  • Help desk processes need to be more efficient
  • Addition of OJT and Observation checklists as part of the Learning Module. You currently need a Performance subscription which doesn't make sense as these are critical training modalities needed on the Learning side.
  • Sometimes it's all about the money to get the level of customer service you expect. Why should you have to pay for a higher-priced support plan to get what I define as expected service levels?
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Customer care: relationship with our account manager is really fluid and fruitful, especially when developing and integrating new functionalities.
  • Onboarding process, really didactic for new comers and appreciated.
  • Reduce the number of clicks: for competencies bank management, it is necessary to save twice at least before submitting any modification.
  • Allow sorting by different means (names, ID etc), by default competencies are listed by alphabetical order which for our particular field is not the most convenient.
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