Is reaching out to headhunters weird?

Hi, I'm an incoming FT IB analyst going to a top bank (GS/MS/JPM) coverage group interested in doing on-cycle recruiting. However, due to some factors highly specific to me, I will almost certainly not show up on headhunters' LinkedIn screens and won't be able to ask another analyst for a copy of any emails that go out to my group.

Without going into specifics (to avoid doxxing myself and that I'm planning on leaving for PE), I wanted to ask if it would be weird to reach out to headhunters before on-cycle starts. Would it be better to reach out for networking calls with PE associates instead?

If the answer is "it depends," can you give examples of situations where it would be fine vs ones where it would be weird?

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