Lateral to trading

Started in M&A at a decent firm but want to move over to the S&T side. How would I go about lateraling?

Most of the Headhunters that have reached out specialize in PE / HF recruiting and I'm not exactly sure whether banks would hire a newly trained first year only 6 months in.

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