Intern to Employee Conversion Creating Duplicate Profiles – How to Retain Same Employee ID?

Summary:

When converting an Intern to an Employee, the system is creating a duplicate person/candidate profile instead of reusing the existing one.

Our requirement is to:

• Retain the same Employee/Person ID post conversion
• Avoid duplicate person records for the same individual

Questions:

1. What is the recommended approach to convert an Intern to Employee without creating duplicate profiles?
2. If duplicate records already exist, is it supported to merge the two person records, and what is the correct way to achieve this?
3. Are there any best practices or setup considerations to prevent this scenario going forward?

Any guidance or experience-based suggestions would be appreciated.