You could try to gain some experience via an internship or apply for a graduate development programmes specialising in HR. They are usually highly competitive but don't require HR experience.

Hi Adrienne
If you do a quick search, you will find there are quite a few threads on here on moving into HR from another profession, including posts from people who have acquired HR qualifications. I get the impression that people are often surprised by how hard this transition can be.

Adrienne, welcome to the community.

This is a common refrain and, I'm afraid, there are no easy answers. Despite the buoyancy of the job market, HR has become an increasingly difficult field in which to find toe hold. So perhaps you'll forgive me if I ask you a question. It's one I seem to ask often to people in almost exactly your situation but to which I'm yet to get a reasonable answer:

Given your professional history, why did you decide to study an MSc in HRM? This is a Level 7 qualification, usually expected from someone already working at the level of an MR Manager with a view to moving into a HR Director or Head of HR role. Why did you not begin with a Level 2 or Level 3 qualification?

In reply to 11033195:

Thank you! I have been looking and there has been some gradual process in regards to networking!

You can try getting project-based work related to the HR industry online, there's a lot of lower-quality work and providers there if you just take the time to stand out from the crowd can pick up regular work even sooner or later, also possibly related interview tests free ones here can sometimes be useful for interviewing, hope this helps all the best. 

In reply to Robey:

Thank you for your response.

In regards to my educational history having studying BSc Sociology, I have always been interested in human interaction and relationship building. My employment history consists of just that, customer service, case handling, teaching assistant etc, therefore alot of transferrable skills can be used in whichever HR role I take on.

Generally, especially as someone who is still quite young, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly what it is that you want to do in your career. It takes some time and exploration to gage what exactly is right and I believe that HR is a suitable career path for myself.

HR is something that stood out to me having assessed my transferable skills. I then researched further and was able to put myself in the shoes of what it would be like to work in the HR industry and this felt fitting to me. I carried further research into the many areas that one can delve into, I have been interested in law, training and development, equality and diversity etc. I figured that being in a profession that allows me to specialise in those and many more areas was interesting to me. I was also after a career that enabled me to experience some level of branching out and change.
Additionally, in regards to my employment history, I have always been subconscious of the way the recruitment processes ran, the management styles that I was under, the various laws that govern employment, sickness and absence, equality and diversity in the workplace and pay itself.

I chose to do a master's level as that was a level of education that I wanted to obtain for myself as I already posses an undergraduate degree.

In reply to Adrienne:

Thanks for coming back with an answer, Adrienne. If you were thinking to pursue an academic career, then going from a BSc in Sociology to an MSc in HRM makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, for someone seeking an entry-level role in operational HR it can end up being a bit of an albatross.

The problem is that, as you'd be technically qualified to be an HRM or higher, just lacking practical experience, you'll struggle to persuade recruiters that you aren't just looking to gain the experience before leaving to get a more senior job - and that's assuming that hiring managers aren't put off simply by being intimidated by someone better qualified to do their job than they are!

Assuming that you're still struggling to find that entry-point to HR, your best option is to maximize your flexibility. If you don't have a family, partner, mortgage or other commitments preventing you, be geographically flexible. You may want to actually move into a major metropolitan centre or simply apply for anything, everywhere, and move yourself to wherever you get an offer (although some recruiters won't interview people who aren't already in their area).

You may also like to look at roles that are "HR adjacent". PA and Office Manager roles in SMEs often carry a degree of HR responsibility where there isn't organic HR.

There are several volunteer (aka unpaid) roles being advertised in People Management
pmjobs.cipd.co.uk/.../ it isn't a quick fix though!