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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ClearCompany

    Score7.7 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    ClearCompany offers an applicant tracking system with core features, including batch or mass communication, job board posting, centralized internal communications, and background checking features. It also provides onboarding automation and performance management.N/A

    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
    ClearCompanyCornerstone OnDemand
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ClearCompanyCornerstone OnDemand
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    Community Pulse
    ClearCompanyCornerstone OnDemand
    Considered Both Products
    ClearCompany
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    Cornerstone OnDemand
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    86%
    Would buy again
    60 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    16 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    65 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    79%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    35 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    74%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    Features
    ClearCompanyCornerstone OnDemand
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of ClearCompany and Cornerstone OnDemand
    Feature
    ClearCompany
    9.4
    15 Ratings
    25% above category average
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.7
    131 Ratings
    5% above category average
    New hire portal10.013 Ratings7.968 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools10.015 Ratings7.8113 Ratings
    Compliance tracking and reporting8.411 Ratings7.4124 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of ClearCompany and Cornerstone OnDemand
    Feature
    ClearCompany
    9.6
    8 Ratings
    30% above category average
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.9
    113 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Corporate goal setting10.07 Ratings7.794 Ratings
    Subordinate goal setting10.05 Ratings8.097 Ratings
    Individual goal setting10.06 Ratings8.4105 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility8.87 Ratings7.893 Ratings
    Performance tracking9.26 Ratings7.6108 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of ClearCompany and Cornerstone OnDemand
    Feature
    ClearCompany
    9.6
    10 Ratings
    37% above category average
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.4
    118 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Performance plans9.25 Ratings7.692 Ratings
    Plan weighting9.85 Ratings7.279 Ratings
    Manager note taking10.07 Ratings7.468 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans9.84 Ratings7.380 Ratings
    Review status tracking9.86 Ratings8.095 Ratings
    Rater nomination workflow9.84 Ratings7.363 Ratings
    Review reminders9.07 Ratings7.892 Ratings
    Workflow restrictions9.05 Ratings7.084 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency9.84 Ratings6.881 Ratings
    Reporting9.87 Ratings7.3112 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of ClearCompany and Cornerstone OnDemand
    Feature
    ClearCompany
    9.6
    11 Ratings
    33% above category average
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.8
    57 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Create succession plans/pools9.02 Ratings7.048 Ratings
    Candidate ranking9.611 Ratings8.048 Ratings
    Candidate search10.09 Ratings7.851 Ratings
    Candidate development10.06 Ratings8.448 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of ClearCompany and Cornerstone OnDemand
    Feature
    ClearCompany
    9.2
    18 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.2
    65 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Job Requisition Management9.518 Ratings7.844 Ratings
    Company Website Posting8.918 Ratings7.840 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media9.613 Ratings6.437 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting10.015 Ratings6.337 Ratings
    Customized Application Form9.818 Ratings7.839 Ratings
    Resume Management9.318 Ratings6.442 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.218 Ratings6.739 Ratings
    Candidate Search8.718 Ratings6.440 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking9.818 Ratings7.540 Ratings
    Collaboration8.317 Ratings7.835 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation9.613 Ratings7.237 Ratings
    Email Templates9.918 Ratings7.558 Ratings
    User Permissions9.317 Ratings7.859 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts8.418 Ratings7.454 Ratings
    Reporting8.215 Ratings7.662 Ratings
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of ClearCompany and Cornerstone OnDemand
    Feature
    ClearCompany
    8.1
    8 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    7.3
    186 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Course authoring7.75 Ratings4.8137 Ratings
    Course catalog or library7.75 Ratings8.3184 Ratings
    Player/Portal8.55 Ratings8.0171 Ratings
    Learning content8.35 Ratings8.2146 Ratings
    Mobile friendly7.58 Ratings8.7134 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications8.54 Ratings7.8167 Ratings
    Assignments7.54 Ratings8.0180 Ratings
    Compliance management7.54 Ratings7.1161 Ratings
    Learning administration9.14 Ratings6.4183 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics8.34 Ratings6.2182 Ratings
    Social learning7.34 Ratings7.0115 Ratings
    Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Engagedly
    Score8.4 out of 10
    ClearCompany
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cornerstone OnDemand
    Score6.4 out of 10
    PeopleFluent
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ClearCompanyCornerstone OnDemand
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (21 ratings)
    8.5
    (256 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (37 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (37 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (11 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
    ClearCompanyCornerstone OnDemand
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ClearCompany
    If your company needs to move into becoming completely electronic, as well as the option of having it being remote if needed, this is the way to go. ClearCompany will hold your hand and help you every step of the way to becoming just that! It can be a difficult task to change so much but having their team to meet with you weekly until you have everything up and running was the best experience I could have asked for.
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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
    ClearCompany
    • Real-time updates shared across the software with remote users. It allows us to effectively manage and track candidates workflows and status within the onboarding process. This helps us effectively communicate and keep hooks in the candidate without having them fall through the cracks.
    • ClearCompany is able to customize and report to fit our company. We are in a particular industry where our time to fill, hiring costs and other metrics vary from time to time. In order to get an accurate report, ClearCompany has gone above and beyond to customize our reports and give us the data we need with a click of a button.
    • ClearCompany is always in constant communication and willing to assist. The feedback from the support team is almost instantaneous. I have the direct number to my customer care agent and her manager as well. It's nice to know they are there to help at a moment's notice. The support team has a great chat feature that allows me to send a message while i'm on the phone. They are quick to respond and always friendly.
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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
    ClearCompany
    • Reporting is a bit limited - most reports require significant cleanup and/or take a lot of work to make meaningful
    • Hiring Manager visibility is limited when it comes to notifications (scorecards completed, etc.) and feedback for candidates from other processes, meaning that the burden is put on TA to inform
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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
    ClearCompany
    No answers on this topic
    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
    ClearCompany
    No answers on this topic
    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
    ClearCompany
    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
    ClearCompany
    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
    ClearCompany
    I had a great relationship with my first customer success manager. When I first started, she helped me navigate the system and was always available to answer any questions. They have provided great support throughout the last 2 years of me using the system. I attended a ClearCompany conference and they were incredible at providing support and showing how to best utilize the system,
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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
    ClearCompany
    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
    ClearCompany
    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
    ClearCompany
    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
    ClearCompany
    No comparison. It's apples to oranges when comparing. Clear Company is well-rounded and willing to collaborate to make it right for each company. Most other platforms make you adapt to the product they think is best without individual company needs in mind.
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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
    ClearCompany
    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
    ClearCompany
    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
    ClearCompany
    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
    ClearCompany
    • ClearCompany has some helpful options our company has utilized, but overall it has been very hard to get past some of the user interfaces that aren't functional or getting speedy responses when something isn't operational.
    • ClearCompany has custom reports that help us strategize our recruitment efforts, but we have had many instances where the reports do not pull data from the system which has lead to confusion or decisions being made with incomplete information.
    • ClearCompany has multiple avenues to contact them or get help, but they are not always effective because of the completion time frame varies.
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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.