Rehire and External Record Merge Error

Summary:

When we try to merge the candidate records, we get the below. There is a req in the past he is a part of but we cant remove the application as it was tied to his previous employment.

You can't merge candidate Howard Strickland because this candidate has job applications with offers in the HR phase. (IRC-1590853)

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