Is there a way to hire a candidate into a requisition without moving to HR?

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We are going through a merger and have employees at the new company applying to open requisitions. We are planning to load all employees into the system so that a person record will be generated for them . Is there a way to hire them into the requisition without moving them to HR status and creating a new employee record? We want to show that this hire has filled this req (from a reporting standpoint) without creating a duplicate record.

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