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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bullhorn ATS & CRM

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Bullhorn Recruitment CRM is a SaaS based solution that offers a suite of features typical of applicant tracking systems: a mobile app, batch or mass communication with potential candidates via multiple channels, instantaneous posting to multiple job boards, resume parsing, and data and document uploading.

    $99

    per month per user

    Cornerstone OnDemand

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/ACornerstone 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.N/A
    Pricing
    Bullhorn ATS & CRMCornerstone OnDemand
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bullhorn ATS & CRMCornerstone OnDemand
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional DetailsContact Bullhorn for pricing information
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    Community Pulse
    Bullhorn ATS & CRMCornerstone OnDemand
    Considered Both Products
    Bullhorn
    No answer on this topic
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    65%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    86%
    Would buy again
    60 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    68%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    68%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    65 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    45%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    35 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    50%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    74%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    Features
    Bullhorn ATS & CRMCornerstone OnDemand
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Bullhorn ATS & CRM and Cornerstone OnDemand
    Feature
    Bullhorn ATS & CRM
    9.5
    58 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.2
    65 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Job Requisition Management10.057 Ratings7.844 Ratings
    Company Website Posting10.049 Ratings7.840 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media7.222 Ratings6.437 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting6.027 Ratings6.337 Ratings
    Customized Application Form10.040 Ratings7.839 Ratings
    Resume Management10.058 Ratings6.442 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention10.055 Ratings6.739 Ratings
    Candidate Search10.058 Ratings6.440 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking10.058 Ratings7.540 Ratings
    Collaboration10.053 Ratings7.835 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation10.052 Ratings7.237 Ratings
    Email Templates10.055 Ratings7.558 Ratings
    User Permissions10.049 Ratings7.859 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts10.052 Ratings7.454 Ratings
    Reporting10.052 Ratings7.662 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of Bullhorn ATS & CRM and Cornerstone OnDemand
    Feature
    Bullhorn ATS & CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.7
    131 Ratings
    5% above category average
    New hire portal00 Ratings7.968 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools00 Ratings7.8113 Ratings
    Compliance tracking and reporting00 Ratings7.4124 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Bullhorn ATS & CRM and Cornerstone OnDemand
    Feature
    Bullhorn ATS & CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.9
    113 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Corporate goal setting00 Ratings7.794 Ratings
    Subordinate goal setting00 Ratings8.097 Ratings
    Individual goal setting00 Ratings8.4105 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings7.893 Ratings
    Performance tracking00 Ratings7.6108 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of Bullhorn ATS & CRM and Cornerstone OnDemand
    Feature
    Bullhorn ATS & CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.4
    118 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Performance plans00 Ratings7.692 Ratings
    Plan weighting00 Ratings7.279 Ratings
    Manager note taking00 Ratings7.468 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans00 Ratings7.380 Ratings
    Review status tracking00 Ratings8.095 Ratings
    Rater nomination workflow00 Ratings7.363 Ratings
    Review reminders00 Ratings7.892 Ratings
    Workflow restrictions00 Ratings7.084 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency00 Ratings6.881 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings7.3112 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of Bullhorn ATS & CRM and Cornerstone OnDemand
    Feature
    Bullhorn ATS & CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.8
    57 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings7.048 Ratings
    Candidate ranking00 Ratings8.048 Ratings
    Candidate search00 Ratings7.851 Ratings
    Candidate development00 Ratings8.448 Ratings
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Bullhorn ATS & CRM and Cornerstone OnDemand
    Feature
    Bullhorn ATS & CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.3
    186 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Course authoring00 Ratings4.8137 Ratings
    Course catalog or library00 Ratings8.3184 Ratings
    Player/Portal00 Ratings8.0171 Ratings
    Learning content00 Ratings8.2146 Ratings
    Mobile friendly00 Ratings8.7134 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings7.8167 Ratings
    Assignments00 Ratings8.0180 Ratings
    Compliance management00 Ratings7.1161 Ratings
    Learning administration00 Ratings6.4183 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings6.2182 Ratings
    Social learning00 Ratings7.0115 Ratings
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    Bullhorn ATS & CRMCornerstone OnDemand
    Small Businesses
    Crelate
    Score9.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    CareerSiteBuilder
    Score10 out of 10
    ClearCompany
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    JobDiva
    Score7.7 out of 10
    PeopleFluent
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Bullhorn ATS & CRMCornerstone OnDemand
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (80 ratings)
    8.5
    (256 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    2.0
    (13 ratings)
    9.9
    (37 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (37 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (10 ratings)
    6.6
    (36 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (114 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bullhorn ATS & CRMCornerstone OnDemand
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bullhorn
    Bullhorn served as a very reliable and thorough tracking system for contacts, discovering prospects, and maintaining track of all relevant data. There are many customization options, strong search results, and sensible workflows. Excellent reporting tool. When we needed to find new resumes but all we could find were talents who had previously been discovered, it was less appropriate. Job Boards outperformed Bull Horn in terms of speed and quality.
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    Cornerstone OnDemand
    I feel Cornerstone OnDemand is a great solution for companies that have a large amount of compliance training that needs to be assigned and closely tracked. The features of dynamic groups (based on specific user criteria) allows you to target very specific audiences. The assignment functionality gives you great flexibility on when the assignment runs and how often, and also provides many options for due dates (static date or dynamic date - x days from hire date, date assigned, etc.). This has allowed us to have a clear and consistent user experience for both our newly hired employees and our seasoned employees.
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    Pros
    Bullhorn
    • It provides the contact details of a candidate relevant to the job. All details are with a user-friendly interface that anyone can use the application.
    • The specific details given by Bullhorn ATS & CRM are unbelievable. One place and you can make a decision about hiring or not hiring.
    • The messaging automation feature again helps to save our time.
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    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • Automatic recurring assignments are easy to get that refresher training out without needing to assign it fresh each time.
    • Reporting 2.0 makes it easy to write and share your reports with just selected filters. Making it easy for people receiving it to just change what they need to see.
    • Learning Admin Console makes it easy to peek at what is going on in your portal and open up connected reporting when needed.
    • Success Center is a great resource for getting peer answers to questions and learning about the releases and suggesting changes that should be added to the roadmap.
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    Cons
    Bullhorn
    • Reporting: out of the box reporting is not very detailed or easy to navigate. In order to get better detailed and specific reports, you either need their Canvas product or pay for a 3rd party vendor.
    • Customization: will get better with NOVO Experience update, but many users still don't have it. Right now many fields and order are not customizable
    • Many features Bullhorn can do are not apparent to the user, often times you have to call in the figure things out.
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    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • Sometimes finding the right answer to your support question can be a bit more difficult than it should be.
    • I would like to see more OSHA related courses.
    • At times, the administrative interface seems to need to be updated, but the tradeoff honestly might be the absolute rock-solid stability of the platform.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bullhorn
    We have about 2 years left on our current contract; It would take a major change in the ATS marketplace for us to strongly consider opting out of renewal given the time and effort we have dedicated to building our our Bullhorn system. I will take the time to revisit with some of the competition down the road, but Bullhorn acquired our runner up, MaxHire, about a year back and continues to offer a solid product suite for our current and future needs.
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    Cornerstone OnDemand
    As long as pricing stays reasonable, we will likely stay with Cornerstone for at least one more contract renewal. It would be a large task to migrate all of our content to a new system. However, the LMS landscape is diversifying with new startups that are showing some real innovation.
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    Usability
    Bullhorn
    I found Bullhorn ATS & CRM to be extremely user friendly and quick to learn how to navigate it. The integration to Xero is extremely beneficial and really helps us to manage and monitor our recruitment activities and what stage of recruitment we are up to and to ensure we are invoicing our clients accordingly which we do in three stages.
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    Cornerstone OnDemand
    Easy to use, easy to learn, lots of support during the learning process. There are a few parts of the system we don't use and I'm hesitant to begin using because other clients have said they're difficult and cumbersome (certifications) or outdated (libraries)
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bullhorn
    No answers on this topic
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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.
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    Performance
    Bullhorn
    No answers on this topic
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    Pages do not load quickly. Often times any action or selection of a box, drop down, check, pretty much ANY Javascript interaction causes the whole entire page to load/reload/start doing something in the background. This makes a nightmare for having to mass edit courses or upload ILT sessions. It's the one of the archaic web designs they use that really bugs me as an admin and makes working in the portal at times intolerable and insufferable
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    Support Rating
    Bullhorn
    It's been a nightmare experience. The initial sales team were brilliant, and the customer service is great from the tech team - they get in touch with you quickly. However; I was often finding workarounds myself, or being advised workarounds instead of having issues resolved (example - The DPA/Non DPA issue - an Excel spreadsheet can do this, yet a CRM cannot?). I was debited on the incorrect date & then when I requested they refund until the due date, I was re-debited again on the correct date. The communication was poor - their billing team are based in the US and there was no acknowledgement of the mistake. My initial consultant chased them down for me, and advised me of their error. Lucky. The product was oversold. For example; I was advised their 'merge docs' feature would allow me to pull data directly from the 'Overview,' 'Work Histories' which later proved to be false. Finally, when I requested to end my contract & transfer my data (I advised a specific date I needed it, when my CRM would be ready) they advised it would take 15 business days & I was to put no further data in my system during that 15 days, and then gave me my data after 3. I now have no CRM for 4 weeks
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    Cornerstone OnDemand
    Its always important to have support when you are facing problems and when you are the main admin of the organization. Cornerstone Support is very supporting when you have not found the answer in the help guide. its very useful to have a team support to guide you.
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    In-Person Training
    Bullhorn
    No answers on this topic
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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.
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    Online Training
    Bullhorn
    No answers on this topic
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    The online modules are pretty good. You can access them at any time, which we have done. You learn a lot in the beginning, but having the ability to retake short lessons when you are working on those items was very helpful.
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    Implementation Rating
    Bullhorn
    No answers on this topic
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    The implementation was pretty difficult. We felt they (Cornerstone) didn’t properly allocate the resources to complete our implementation in the timetable we wanted.

    For example, we worked on Workday and SSO integrations - work that we had specifically contracted for in advance. When we were ready to work on that project, they didn’t have the people ready to help us, so it took a lot longer than necessary. That was my biggest pain point.

    The implementation approach we went with was a self-led implementation. We would speak to the implementation manager once per week, and self-trained. We met with implementation manager to discuss issues, review things that we’d learned for 1 hour. We found that wasn’t enough. Other things would come up outside that one hour window that we couldn’t get answers to. We didn’t have anyone to ask about those things and we had to wait to ask during our weekly meeting.

    The advantage of the self-led implementation approach was that it was really inexpensive – significantly less than the implementation cost for the other systems that we looked at. I also liked that we could pace ourselves. There were however big roadblocks. We would have to make sure the right resources were available. We had an implementation/project manager with a lot of experience and felt that the person was knowledgeable but missed on a few things.

    In hindsight, I would still go with the self-led implementation, but knowing what I know now, I would ask for the integration person to be available more. I would work that into the contract. With single sign-on, we needed deep linking to build direct links through a Single Sign-On tool, e.g. when someone gets an email, it directs them to training. But it has to go through SSO to get them to the correct link. Deep linking wasn’t turned on in our system and they had to activate it. We encountered little things like that – sequencing pre-requisites which were problematic. We tried to troubleshoot ourselves.

    I recommend you consider contracting for some extra implementation hours and determine when they are going to be available. Work it into the contract that you have the ability to call tech support during implementation. In addition to weekly implementation meetings, they have technical webexes – 4 every week, but 2 didn’t apply to us – one as we were using SSO. The challenge is they were not always relevant – we had specific questions that didn’t fall into those categories
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bullhorn
    Breathe is a great tool for smaller internal recruitment teams and I have previously used an in-house built system similar however Bullhorn is something you can use across larger businesses and growing SME's it works well for international businesses as everything is updated in real-time. The support function is excellent and the training tools for new starters are super helpful for our L&D team. Your account manager is also great for assisting in personalising sections to make them more business specific.
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    Cornerstone OnDemand
    The user experience is a lot better than using SumTotal as an admin CSOD makes working easy. Without having workarounds. Reporting is a lot better than both platforms. Reporting in CSOD is complex however easy to manage and create when you understand the data points collected
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Bullhorn
    No answers on this topic
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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
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    Scalability
    Bullhorn
    No answers on this topic
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    It's a great product with some pieces that are set but many things that can be customized as needed for individual needs
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    Professional Services
    Bullhorn
    No answers on this topic
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    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.
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    Return on Investment
    Bullhorn
    • Bullhorn has helped with the standardization of data which allows us to track our high, low and in between individuals. It allows for corporate bench marks to be tracked. It also allows for a closer look at all of the data points to make decisions versus making decisions based on perceptions. The data has definitely helped us make better business decisions because of the reporting capabilities.
    • Bullhorn has some great marketplace partners and additional products like VMS Access that help with your VMS clients. This is a real time saver.
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    Cornerstone OnDemand
    • We are in the process of trying to increase employee engagement through content expansion. We are in the early stages of this.
    • The Edge Import Tool, in conjunction with Reporting 2.0, has done a great job of helping to automate/semi-automate tasks for huge time savings.
    • Maintaining compliance. Achieved through dynamic/automated groups, assignments, communication, and reporting.
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    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.