Contingent vs External Merge

Summary:

There is profile merge btn CWK and External Profile and outcome expected upon post merge with selected Alpha profile being CWK should be a contingent Worker,But there is External profile shown. Upon Analysis the Flag set in configuration was Contingent work is External candidate, And the Contingent worker has applied through Internal CS for this job opportunity. My call is that as CWK has applied internal portal and as the flag already being set is causing Issue? He should have applied through External CS and then once we have merge process in progress, issue will be sorted right. Please advise