I had the same problem initially. No one would take me on board because of the 'lack of experience'. A Workaround is to pick up a few freelance gigs on the sid

I had the same problem initially. No one would take me on board because of the 'lack of experience'. A Workaround is to pick up a few freelance gigs on the side using Upwork, Freelancer (or similar) and then leverage that as you have technically been working with clients remotely. That's how I got around it