# Cornerstone Recruiting Reviews **Vendor:** Cornerstone OnDemand **Category:** [Recruiting Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/recruiting-automation) **Average Rating:** 3.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 60 ## About Cornerstone Recruiting Cornerstone Recruiting software enables companies with the tools to deliver an engaging candidate experience, streamline your hiring process, and make smarter hiring decisions. Quickly match and onboard the right people. Showcase your brand and reach more qualified people with mobile-friendly, customizable Career Sites. Simplify the application process, increasing your candidate conversion rates. Leverage prebuilt Job Board Integrations to post jobs to jobs boards directly from Cornerstone. Increase employee retention by driving career mobility, adding job postings internally on the Career Center. Cornerstone powers the future ready workforce. With adaptive HR software designed to unite people, teams, technology, and business, our products inspire a work environment of growth, agility, and success for all. We built our AI-powered and skills-forward system for the contemporary workforce. Organizations that use Cornerstone modernize their 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. Cornerstone serves over 7,000 customers and 140 million users and is available in 186 countries and 50 languages. For more information, visit www.cornerstoneondemand.com. ## Cornerstone Recruiting Reviews ### 1. Easy Custom Reports, but overall Poor User Experience **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2026 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Looks good and easy to create customised reports. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I’ve been working with Cornerstone Recruiting and, unfortunately, the experience has been disappointing. While the platform looks modern at first glance, the actual usability is far from intuitive. Basic actions often require multiple clicks, and workflows feel unnecessarily complex and time-consuming. Instead of supporting recruiters in their daily work, the system often slows things down. Thats the system is slow, doesn't help either. The learning curve is steep, and it feels like the tool was designed more with technical users in mind than recruiters. Even after extended use, navigation and logic remain unclear in many areas. There are also clear limitations in flexibility. Customizing views is almost impossible; workflows, templates, ... is more restrictive than expected. Overall, despite its visual appeal, the platform lacks efficiency, intuitiveness, and flexibility. In a market where speed and user experience are critical, this is a significant drawback. It's one of the worst ATS I've been working with in whole my career; I would not recommend it to organizations looking for a user-friendly and efficient ATS. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** _ ### 2. Outdated Complex interface with poor candidate management capabilities **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I like the Manage Candidates page where recruiters can use filters to view candidates based off of location, interview stage and even application answers (ex: see all the candidates who replied yes to a certain skill) You can also set up application questions to knock out candidates based off of their response. But you can't customize the email those candidates get or delay that email by even a few minutes which is poor candidate experience **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** You can't customize the rejection emails for candidates who get automatically rejected on a pre-screening filter, nor can you delay that email by even a few minutes which is poor candidate experience. Their career site capabilities are so limited and the interface for candidates is outdated. You can't build scorecards in the ATS so you can't gather feedback from interviewers within the system like other ATS'. Absolutely no Ai and no plans for it either which makes me believe their not following up with the industry advancements. Customer support is barely existant. New feature releases or enhancements barely happen. Reporting is basically exporting spreadsheets or raw data. ATS can't be used on Mobile devices. etc... **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have team members across the globe and Cornerstone can work in different languages ### 3. Easy to Manage & Customize **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I love the ability it has provided for our institution to move our paper files and job postings online. Cornerstone Recruiting made it easier for applicants to apply and be considered. We used to have paper applications mailed to us constantly now, it is all online. It is easy to manage new hires and where they are within the process. Online onboarding is a huge bonus, and we all receive compliments on how simple it is to complete your onboarding before you even arrive for your first day. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Some of the forms are not exaclty like we would want them to be only due to the formatting limits. Otherwise we don't have many complaints about the Cornerstone Recruiting platform. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cornerstone has made improvements even from when we first implemented it in 2019. We enjoy every improvement Cornerstone makes. Our business performance has improved and is a lot easy to manage. ### 4. Powerful and very configurable tool! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pablo D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** The best for us is how easy to configure the selection process are. Also the way we can create our own job site using code to make it unique. We also love how easy it is to merge information from different job portals with Recruiting using API. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Database search doesn't work when you are looking for technologies. Also, it's not possible to filter candidates based on the answers to the prescreening questions. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can hardly see how Cornerstone is solving any of our current problems. ### 5. Hire and retain employees through CSOD ATS **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Henri Claude M. | Global HRIS Lead | CSOD, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** WE had the opportunity to customize our career site and WE appreciated a lot **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** The interview management process is not really friendly **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** We succeed to push job offer in bulk in many job career site ### 6. New good features in last years **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ruben F. | Tecnico de Sistemas de Talento y Aprendizaje y HR Analytics, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Manage all candidates of any requisition at same place **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Requisitions changes not to much flexibles **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** Not use the requisition templates and only have 1 default templete for all **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create our own recruiting portals ### 7. Solid recruiting solution, as part of a HR-Suite **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick H. | Senior Expert HR Digital, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Manager dashboard is very good. Manage candidates is continuously improving. Reporting and Dashboards can be very good and powerful (you have to built them for yourself). API-Integration is very good. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Limitations in emails to the candidate. Old fashioned requisition management. Local legal requirements (like works council involvement) not fully implemented. Offer letter engine good for basic tasks, but not suitable for contracts. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Efficient candidate management. KPI-Delivery. Streamlined recruiting-processes. (Internal) career site provisioning. Approval workflows. Requisition management. ### 8. PASS on Cornerstone Recruiting - Outdated, cumbersome, clunky **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Philanthropy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** The system does allow recruiters to easily review / move candidates through the recruiting funnel. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Every part of the system is overly complex, cumbersome, inflexibile. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** Like all companies, I'm sure Cornerstone sold my company on their recruiting capabilities, but there were no recruiting subject matter experts on the team to dive deeply enough to see how the system actually works. Other products are much easier to set up and use, and add more flexibility to communicate with applicants, hiring managers, and the interview team. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prior to Cornerstone, recruiting was completed via email / paper. At least with Cornerstone there is more automation and structure to the recruiting process. **Official Response from Jenna Coleman:** > Thank you for your candid feedback. We take every review seriously and appreciate any opportunity to improve. I’m sorry that this has been your experience with the recruiting platform. We would love to help you take advantage of all the resources we provide including extensive trainings, Cornerstone Success Center, Office Hours, etc. The system is highly configurable which can be overwhelming but it can help give you the exact features you need. We appreciate your feedback and hope we can turn your experience around. ### 9. CSOD Recruiting **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** If you know the Cornerstone software well, then you should be able to easily figure out how to configure the Recruiting module. It has a lot of surprising options that you can enable. Frequent updates and enhancments. Majority of new hires are happy with the process the system provides. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Difficulty managing re-hires. There is no solid solution for re-hires, which is causing a lot of manual work and duplicated records. New features are still missing some of the old functionality, which is why we can't deploy those to users. Having to recreate and reapply the job templates every time a change is needed. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cornertone Recruiting works. We have been able to hire through the system for the past few years and most of the requirements are available in this system. **Official Response from Jenna Coleman:** > Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We are glad that your new hires have been happy with the process. I'm sorry you have frustration around new hires. We take reviews seriously and will pass along that feedback to our product team. I would also suggest you join one of the Office Hour sessions so you can see if the product experts can help a bit with this issue. We hope you continue to enjoy the product and see improvements in the future. ### 10. Cornerstone Recruiting has been my least favorite applicant tracking system to date **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joe U. | Senior Talent Advisor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Honestly, it’s hard for me to say what I like most about Cornerstone recruiting as we have experienced continued issues with the platform. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I dislike the continued technological issues we encounter, the poor customer service and the inability for this product to fully support our recruiting process. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are utilizing cornerstone recruiting solely because it pairs with Cornerstone learning, which we currently utilize as our LMS. There truly are not many benefits to this product. We have encountered countless issues and have the inability for the product to fit our workflow. **Official Response from Lindsey Haines (Deane):** > Hi Joe, thank you for your feedback and for taking the time to leave a video review! I'm glad to hear you like how the various modules such as Cornerstone Recruiting and Learning are seamlessly integrated. We’d love to work with you personally to better understand what you would like to see in an ATS. If you're open to having a conversation with our Product team, please email me directly at wecare@csod.com. We appreciate your feedback and hope you have a great day. ### 11. Great Recruitment platform! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bunmi A. | Sr. Manager, HR Technologies & Analytics, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** We have used the cornerstone recruitment for a few years now and have been quite satisfied with the platform. It provides just what we want in relation to our agencies, applicants and everything in between **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** We have used cornerstone for several years **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** We considered other platforms but Cornerstone was our preferred **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Smooth Integration with other softwares and daily feeds from our current HRIS ### 12. Nice vendors partnership and most needed functionalities available **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Professional support given by consultants to adapt a SaaS software to our environment. Learning and Performance module are mature (all wishing funcionalities available) **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Need to improve "HR Administration" experience -> software is very powerful for end user experience **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** The learning module helps us to manage training expiration dates (mandatory by regulations/certification) and to provide e-learning to end users. Recruitment processes were not centralised but handled by individual business units via HR business partners. This resulted in varying recruitment standards across the company and inconsistent ways of working. Hiring requests were made via paper and had to be discussed at weekly meetings, with managers having to physically sign papers for recruitment approval. We wanted to simplify and reduce HR administration to help the rest of the business better understand HR processes and to contribute to the overall efficiency of the company. ### 13. Effectively onboarding **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** When you have the first interview for a job position you are nervous, anxiety and with much expected, so the recruitment team need a efficiency program to deliver the best experience to the candidate and this tool give that. I like the idea to connect people with the right companies. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Maybe not all the people feel the confidence to start the first steps of recruitment through software, but for companies it is much more effective. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** You can reduce time of looking the best candidate and you can hire wonderful people for the company because you can quickly match the right person to a job position. Therefore now the talent market is so high and the companies need more time and money to select the right person and this software help reduce this efforts. ### 14. There are better ATS vendors **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I like that it is easy to create custom reports from scratch **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I don't like that not all fields on the requisition are available in recording, no search fields are available, requisition format cannot be rearranged, no custom requisition or applicant statuses. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** All of our requests for enhancements have been denied so far so if you already have a recruiting process in place and are looking into another ATS to help your organization, this isn't it. With that said, there are others that are worse than cornerstone. I think if you are planning to build your recruiting process around the ATS, cornerstone could be a good fit. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** cornerstone has helped improve our recruiting since the previous system. We are able to process more applications in a shorter time period. **Official Response from Lindsey Haines (Deane):** > Thank you for your candid feedback. We take every review seriously and appreciate any opportunity to improve. I’m sorry that this has been your experience with the recruiting platform. We’d love to work with you personally to alleviate some of your concerns and create a plan to improve your experience. Please email me directly at wecare@csod.com. We appreciate your feedback and hope we can turn your experience around. ### 15. Cornerstone ATS and ONB **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I like that Cornerstone has a modern UI compared to our older system. There are many preferences and settings that we can customize. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Cornerstone is not scalable for large organization who do mass recruiting. A lot of manual workarounds are needed to meet our business requirements, and our requests to build new functionality are denied. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can have one Talent Management system to follow the employee throughout their lifecycle. **Official Response from Hayley Handler:** > Hi there! Thank you for your feedback. Great to hear that you are enjoying our modern UI. I'm sorry that you are having to configure a lot of manual work arounds. We are actively looking for better ways to allow for better configuration of our product, so I will make sure that your comment is passed on to our Product team. We hope you find this helpful and if you need additional help in escalating this issue to the right team, please email me directly at wecare@csod.com. Once again, we appreciate your feedback and hope we can turn your experience around. ### 16. CS Recruitment Makes Life Easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Seamless movement of candidates through the recruitment and onboarding processes. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Setting up the platform and realizing all the challenges we would have with data and data uploads. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking internal movement of employees. Everything was done on paper prior to moving to CS recruitment and it was awful and cumbersome. ### 17. Inefficient ATS **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I cannot see many positive things about the system. There is not much that I like about it since it is so labor-intensive and administratively taxing. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** The system is not customizable, there are several exhausting administrative tasks you must complete to go through the hiring process. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** Please evaluate other ATS systems. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it as an applicant tracking system ### 18. 4 Year Client - using full suite **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Manage Candidates makes the recruiters job so much easier **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Amount of downtime, inability to search all applicants via candidate search, duplicates, inability to change back to external candidate when they separate. Dated career center. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** To much down time, is moving in the right direction but still green. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** New talent search with user friendly career sites ### 19. Just okay **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I like that it's an online recruitment system instead of paper. That's really the best part about it **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** It is not intuitive. It is not user friendly. If you start a requisition there is no way to save it and go back to it. If you have to stop in the middle you just lose the whole thing **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** Try something else **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's our online job application site. That's about all we're using it for. **Official Response from Lindsey Haines (Deane):** > Thank you for your review. I’m sorry that this has been your experience with the recruiting platform. First,I wanted to let you know that the Product team has decided to redesign of the requisition creation and management process. We'd like the oppotunity to dig into your concerns with you and find out exactly what functionalities you are referring to as there may be some helpful configuration options. If you have additional feedback, please email me directly at wecare@csod.com. Once again, we appreciate your feedback. ### 20. A great and complete tool to enhace the talent processes of any corporation. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose Angel L. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** The ability to customize the tools of every module according to the organization, including when the organization is composed by different companies with different business rules. We love the fact that every action done through the portal leaves a record which can be reported, this helps us a lot with the human factor, the adoption. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Support it has been a pain in the neck, as long as the platform tools work as it is supposed to, everything is perfect. But once something fails, it is really difficult to get the issue fixed soon. Service level agreements are really long. Also, cornerstone current app is really dissapointing we really expect to be able to do more actions through it and not having problems while doing so. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** Even though they have already started working on their customer support, we feel miles far away from the experience expected and offered at the selling point. We have also spoken with other companies and agree with this last part. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are not really solving any problems with the platform, however, our benefits come from the automatization of talent processes and its control. Cornerstone has helped us to keep on track every process from recruitment to succession matters. Recruitment: Requisitions management is much better, however it has made us loose a few candidates with the addition of the flows. Learning: We strongly believe this is the most complete module which has helped us a lot to keep users on track of their expected training, unfortunately mobility through the app did not work at its best. Performance: The combination of the goals, competencies and development plans tools are really helping us to obtain the best from our employees as well as to follow up their performance. Compensation: We finally have been able to automate the salary increase process, we have had a few difficulties on the road but still a good option. Succession: Great option for us to be able to apply 9 box metodologies and also being able to follow all of the different high potentials or successors. We also have the connect module, however we have not been able yet to make of this a great success since people keep complaining it should be an app where you keep automatically logged in (as facebook). ### 21. Good software, Bad Service **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachel C. | HR Business Partner, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Cornerstone has been very configurable to use wording and processes that we have already defined unique to our business. Overall, the system has made our performance reviews and recruiting experience much easier. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** We have had a very difficult experience with customer service. You will not get a dedicated account rep and will be given many online resources that you must first consult prior to opening a ticket in their service system. However, if you do not also call in to the service center, it's unlikely that anyone will ever address your issue. We elevated our cases to a higher level of management and have still seen response times that are unacceptable to us. For one task, we have been waiting 6 weeks to talk to someone who can help us. For easy issues, you can usually find an answer online, but overall, the service has overshadowed our experience. Was I going to do this over, I also would not use a single sign on with ADP. This process does eliminate the need for an additional username and password for employees, but it disables many shortcuts in Cornerstone that would really be helpful to use. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** The software has created efficiency for our managers and HR staff. We have reduced the amount of Excel spreadsheets we are using to track information. Data entry has been reduced. **Official Response from Lindsey Haines (Deane):** > Hi Rachel! Thank you for your feedback. We take every review seriously and appreciate any opportunity to improve the client experience and overall customer service provided. We acknowledge that our previous response times have been less than adequate, but we have made adjustments to our support by adding staff, enhancing processes, and greatly improving our response time. We have recently changed our support process that only requires you to open a case through Support Central, and we have set a target of responding to the case within one business day. We do want to ensure you receive a timely response with every support issue. If you continue to receive lower than expected response rates I urge you to please email us at wecare@csod.com and we will be sure to address any timing issues. ### 22. I use Recruiting module to support my recruiters as an HR Generalist on a daily basis. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Environmental Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** How easy it is for Hiring Managers to look through candidates and how easy it is for Recruiters to navigate Manage Candidates to reject/advance candidates through next steps. I love how easy it is to post a position for my recruiters and also browse through Manage Requisitions. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** You can't customize offer letter templates - fonts, margins, etc. we've started doing our offer letters outside the system because we can't customize them to our company standards and our logo is blurry when we do it through Cornerstone. Also, there needs to be more office hours for recruiting. I believe you only have it on Wednesday right now at 4pm. They are always full. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instead of our recruiters downloading candidates resumes and emailing them to the Hiring Managers, the Hiring Managers can actually log in themselves and review resumes. This eliminates times for both the recruiters and the hiring managers. ### 23. Good, needs some improvements to be great **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Overall look and feel of the system is user friendly, lots of options to view candidates and make the overall recruiter experience easier **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Overall admin experience is not great, rehire process is clunky and updating requisition templates takes time **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** Ensure processes are in place, don't let the system dictate workflows **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mobile friendly experience is great, we hire a large campus workforce so having mobile capabilities was required. Application takes less than 4 minutes ### 24. Good product, very concerned about GPS support, latency, stability, and bugs after upgrades/patches **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in International Trade and Development | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Integration with interview scheduling, ability to post external and internal jobs, visibility of applicants and requisitions, mobile friendly experience (where available) **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Not all features are mobile-friendly, We have gaps we have not been able to resolve like using custom fields for filtering and displaying. Lack of flexibility on how to display and filter the job list in Career Site. Lately very concerned about bugs introduced after every upgrade or patch. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solved the problem of an outdated system we retired, we thought we would have an integrated talent solution but were not able to make Performance work for us. ### 25. Recruiting module **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lori B. | HR Product Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Mobile applicant candidate page and application **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** No outlook integration, limited characters in comments section, too many clicks in the create a requisition page, inability to reopen closed reqs to edit without a work order, more customization with the offer letter approval functionality (enable recruiters to add comments for managers to review) **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mobile candidate application and career sites have been great. **Official Response from Hayley Handler:** > Hi Lori! Thank you for your feedback. Great to hear that you are enjoying our mobile-friendly candidate experience. I'm sorry that you find our requisition management to be cumbersome. We are currently redesigning the Requisition Management experience, I will make sure that your comment is passed on to our Product team. We hope you find this helpful and if you need additional help in escalating this issue to the right team, please email me directly at wecare@csod.com. Once again, we appreciate your feedback and hope we can turn your experience around. ### 26. Learning about Cornerstone **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Intuitive platform. Configurable system with capability of handling multiple workflows. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Requires kind of account creation. Only have to give name and email though. So not too intrusive. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Haven’t started Using. Did demo. ### 27. Product has come a long way **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in International Trade and Development | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Updated look and feel. New functionality of branched questions for applications. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Product does lacks stability. After each patch or update we lose functionality in such a way that reqs can't be posted, or the inbound/outbound feeds are disrupted. 2) There are not enough ways to constrain visiblity during interview process or application review if process includes more than one interviewer/reviewer **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted a new interface for our external candidates as our existing product was over 10 years old. The feedback we get from our external candidates is consistently good. ### 28. Easy and efficient **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** lindsay s. | Talent Acquisition Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** The different options you can use to dismiss applicants **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I wish there was a way to leave comment about the applicant for the hiring manager to see as you move it through **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** I believe the background checking with hireright isn't fully connected to moving an applicant through ### 29. Other systems I have use in the past have been more intuitive and simpler to use. **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steven L. | Recruiting Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** The req approval process in the system helps with approvals in a global company. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Inability to see or customize emails generated by the system. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** Ensure your configurations are not overly complex. Sometimes less is more. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps us manage the recruiting life-cycle from end to end. **Official Response from Hayley Handler:** > Hi Steven! Thank you for your feedback. I am very happy to hear that Cornerstone helps you manage the recruiting life-cycle from end to end. I am sorry you are having problems with customizing emails. To access Email Administration to edit, manage, and create email please go to ADMIN > TOOLS > CORE FUNCTIONS > EMAIL MANAGEMENT. We hope you find this helpful and if you need additional help in escalating this issue to the right team, please email me directly at wecare@csod.com. Once again, we appreciate your feedback and hope we can turn your experience around. ### 30. Great and easy for finding and applying for work **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** My favorite thing is it feels more personal versus sending your resume to an email address **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I think there are way too many notifications. But I’m sure there’s a setting for that **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** Look everyday. There’s always new postings.and respond right away! **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sites like craigslist feel limited and it’s a hassle to sort through the junk and fake ads. Workpop is great because it’s all in one place. You have a profile with a headshot and you can submit your resume easily. ### 31. Recruiting Integration **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ami H. | HRIS Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I like that we can bundle all of the hiring information from the position and applicant into a report ready to export. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** The slowness of the report that pulls in all of the information and the limited ready-made integration. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** n/a **Official Response from Hayley Handler:** > Hi Ami! Thank you for your feedback. I am sorry to hear you are unhappy with the number of integrations we currently provide. We are actively building more ready-made integrations to help you extend your Cornerstone platform with ease. Once again, we appreciate your feedback and hope we can turn your experience around. If you have additional feedback, please reach out to us directly at wecare@csod.com. ### 32. search engine not friendly for candidates **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** manage candidates can be easily done in cornerstone, specially with the new functionalities like manage candidates. also the new mobile career site is very easy to use **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** i dont think the traditional search job engine is very intuitive for the candidate. most of the times they dont know which fields are mandatory. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** problems with reports, and candidate search. those havent been solved, so i can see benefits for now **Official Response from Hayley Handler:** > Hi there! Thank you for your feedback. I am happy to hear you are enjoying our new Manage Candidates page and Mobile-Friendly Candidate experience. I'm sorry that you are having difficulty with our job search functionality. We are always looking for ways to improve the recruiter and candidate experience, so I will make sure that your comment is passed on to our Product team. If you need additional help in escalating this issue to the right team, please email me directly at wecare@csod.com. Once again, we appreciate your feedback and hope we can turn your experience around. ### 33. Its okay but can be limited and buggy **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Logan J. | promo model, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I like being able to really make my application personalized as well as the video coverletter. It feels more like a social network than a job searching site. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I have noticed the same jobs being posted regularly for the year and a half ive used the site. But the same jobs never even read my application. It’s so rt of like they just try to populate the listings so it looks busier than it is. Also they semd notifications to look and help others with their resume and i dont like that. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** As a job searcher its a good application for customer service jobs. If i ran a business i would love this. It lets people upload photos and videos so you get a decent idea if they will be a good fit **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used it during job searches for both myself and other people (I help people on fiver get get jobs ) although honestly this site really generates a low amount of responses. ### 34. easy to use. Even our newly hired CIO was impressed with the application process and onboarding **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wendy H. | HRIS Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** flexibility especially with the approvals **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** custom tags are not available in the email management **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** approvals were the main problem with previous vendor ### 35. Need more training **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Manage candidates tab and allows hiring managers to be involved via cornerstone. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** generating the offer letter. The formatting and alignment. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hiring managers are able to use the system during the hiring process. ### 36. The overall impression is positive, there is excitement for future developments, and there is a need for additional resources. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Custom ability, user friendly, posting, releases **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** The text describes a system or process involving GPS that is heavily administrative, requires many clicks, takes time, and necessitates either an internal team or a third party. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** The word "Automated" is already in English. It refers to a process or system that operates automatically, often using technology or machinery, without human intervention. ### 37. Great Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Really would recommend this platform to anyone really made me efficient in my job. Workpop is a great platform for anyone looking to break barriers in the industry **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I enjoyed this product one hundred percent there are no negatives about it. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Workpop allows you to hire and find the best talent especially in high volume recruiting. They do a really great job in providing a great platform for both talent and employers ### 38. Do not recommend :( **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Recent updates in Cornerstone has made candidate profiles look visibly appealing. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Honestly, I do not know where to begin. It is not user friendly. We recruit for multiple public schools and therefore we have external staff review candidates on Cornerstone but it is complex and not simple to use that many of our principals refuse to use it. There are times when automated emails get sent to our candidates even though that is not a feature we selected. Sometimes the drop down menu does not show and therefore we cannot access our candidates. Once you create an application and it is live, you cannot make minor changes, you need to create a new one. Cornerstone just creates unnecessary manual steps for us. Honestly, the list goes on... **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** We primarily use it as an ATS and performance management across our organization. **Official Response from Lindsey Haines (Deane):** > Thank you for your feedback. We take every review seriously and appreciate any opportunity to improve. I’m sorry that this has been your experience with the recruiting platform. We’d love to work with you personally to alleviate some of your concerns and create a plan to improve your experience. Please email me directly at wecare@csod.com. We appreciate your feedback and hope we can turn your experience around. ### 39. Easy to use, but a little pricey **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Very simple layout which is great. User friendly. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Software is more pricey than similar products. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/A ### 40. ease of access to candidates' backgrounds **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I am able to easily pull up a candidate's background, such as his or her resume, when creating employment updates and completing new hire paperwork. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Sometimes the route to find a closed candidates resume/application isn't as intuitive. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** I need to familiarize myself more with the product to provide recommendations. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our hiring manager utilizes cornerstone most, and helps us consolidate and see all applicants in one place and their status. Also helpful for HR reps to look up candidates' or hired employees' professional backgrounds. ### 41. User friendly HR system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** The system saves application information from previous searches **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** The resume upload can be pretty inaccurate at times. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamlines the search process ### 42. Cornerstone **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Molly D. | DeNovo ( New Center ) Training Specialist - Non Clinical , Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Everything is in one place which makes it easy to find training materials. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Virtual trainings don't always work properly **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** I recommend it, but only if you have someone who is familiar with it and can operate and troubleshoot in it. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cornerstone is an awesome tool for training! ### 43. Captain Awesome **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Scott W. | Sales Representative, Insurance, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** It is amazing and I'm so excited about being apart of it **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I'm not really a big fan of the setup for the mobile site **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** No **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm not really sure ### 44. Great Product - Still Needs Some Work **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Great community and there are a lot of ways to get the information you need to solve a problem. There are the Communities of Practice, the Office Hours Calls, there are the online search features which will bring up training videos and other things as well. There is a wealth of information and ways to find what you are looking for on their site. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Job Ad is not as flexible as I would like it to be. It is not as fluid as the other provider that we had in the past. **Recommendations to others considering Cornerstone Recruiting:** Have a complete dialog with all the key players who will be using the system. Discuss all of the features that you would like to see in the system prior to implementation with your representative. Think outside the box and ask for things that you want in a system. Discuss problems you had with your old system and ask how this system can address the situation. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is allowing us to create multiple pages for our academic recruitment with one vendor instead of outsourcing and saves on costs. ### 45. Cornerstone **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** It allows you to tag candidates to multiple requisitions; you can post from the site. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** We have experienced a lot of bugs. For example, applications that are open will sometimes display an error message to candidates saying that the job is not currently available. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** My team is using it as our Applicant Tracking System, but our org uses it for other purposes as well. ### 46. cornerstone helps improve engagement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brittany L. | Senior Account Executive, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** it really helps with engaging the employees. People feel like they are learning tips particular to their role and that generally helps them learn more about their industry. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Emails are sometimes frequent but overall provide a nice, mobile friendly experience, **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** engagement and overall understanding of the industry. it is very helpful and i have noticed people have more input about industry standards and points of concern for retention. ### 47. User friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kate B. | PICU Travel Nurse, Staffing and Recruiting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Corner Stone has been very user friendly and describes proper use. Easy to navigate and find sections within interface. Would recommend using this with other companies. I am in healthcare and it is easy to access modules that we need to complete. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** There is occasionally issues with modules not working. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Modules for healthcare ### 48. Still learning the functionality **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Enhancements to the recruiting module. I am now able to view more items on one screen. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** The software is very slow. The recruiting module is improving. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Everything is located in one place. ### 49. Cornerstone is a great central hub for training materials **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex M. | Accountant, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Viewing my transcript in one place, so I can reference in the future. **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Searching is pretty basic, but could be more robust so I can browse. **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** Central place to view training over time, and sends reminders when training is due ### 50. Meh **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Olivia T. | Client Service Coordinator, Veterinary, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Cornerstone Recruiting?** I didn't really like it, it was hard to use **What do you dislike about Cornerstone Recruiting?** Everything felt bulky, didn't look appealing **What problems is Cornerstone Recruiting solving and how is that benefiting you?** I didn't like the program, so none of the above ## Cornerstone Recruiting Discussions - [can you provide a way to extract the pre-screening questions when extracting via the views in edge?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/12411-can-you-provide-a-way-to-extract-the-pre-screening-questions-when-extracting-via-the-views-in-edge) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Cornerstone Recruiting pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/cornerstone-recruiting/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+10%3A35%3A01+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=fa8783ad-8b22-4ca9-97d8-9cc88f7788e6&secure%5Btoken%5D=cfb6c8470aa578f588195d6840e6b3de2099389bedea0020543cb39cd524befa&format=llm_user) ## Cornerstone Recruiting Features **Platform Functionality** - Sourcing and Candidate Identification - Job Posting - Interview Scheduling - Applicant Tracking **Platform Content** - Automation - File Sharing - Customizability **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation **Recruitment Platform - Recruitment Platforms** - User Permissions - Sourcing - Interviews - Dashboard - Internationalization & Locationalization - Customization **Agentic AI - Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Onboarding** - Autonomous Task Execution - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Sourcing** - Candidate Search - Career Page Configuration - Social Sourcing - Job Posting - Candidate Sourcing Metrics **Platform Content** - Forms Library - E-Forms - E-Signature - Background Checks - Offer Letter Approvals - Offer Letter Templates **Basics** - Interoperability - Reporting - Mobility **Platform Basics** - Interoperability - Performance - Integrations **Recruitment AI - Recruitment Platforms** - Candidate Matching - Gen AI in Talent Acquisition - Engagement **Agentic AI - Recruiting Automation** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Candidate Management - Applicant Tracking System** - Candidate Evaluations - Applicant Data Management - Hiring Processes Tracking - Automated Resume Parsing - Scheduling - Candidate-Facing Statuses - Workflow Building **Platform Additional Functionality** - Self-Service Portal - Automated Team Introductions - Compliance Training - Automated Onboarding Workflows - Onboarding Notifications **Performance** - Performance - Monitoring - Reporting **Platform Content** - Digital Strategy - Candidate Relationship Management - Employer Branding - Social Recruiting **Platform Data** - Time-to-Productivity Reporting - Onboarding Process Reporting - Visualization **Additional Functionality** - Mobility - Dashboard - Task Management **Platform Performance** - Automation - File Sharing - Reporting **Agentic AI - Recruitment Platforms** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Decision Making **Platform** - Customization - Integration APIs - Internationalization - User, Role, and Access Management - Performance - Mobility - Reporting - Dashboards **Recruiting and Onboarding** - Interview Scheduling - Onboarding **Platform Additional Functionality** - Dashboard - Mobility **AI - Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)** - Predictive Insights - AI Job Description - Chatbot ## Top Cornerstone Recruiting Alternatives - [ClearCompany](https://www.g2.com/products/clearcompany/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (495 reviews) - [ICIMS](https://www.g2.com/products/icims/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (974 reviews) - [SAP SuccessFactors HCM](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-sap-successfactors-hcm/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (1,447 reviews)