Hi Sonia, congratulations on passing your CC exam.
Starting with entry level cyber security roles friendly doing things on hard mode, not saying you can’t just that you’re less likely to get one than if you have experience in IT, so congratulations! Your having IT work experience is helpful and working out how to present that, and what it helps with is important so do put a metric on it, paid unpaid, and do think about how that can help. More is better, so do see if you can carry on in IT as most of what is done has a security element.
Now for the CC there are three things where you need to be cautious -1) it’s not widely known as yet, so do search for it daily in linked in, job sites and note which jobs need it. 2) it doesn’t have any hands on, most entry level jobs require use of tools - consider Security+ and Google Certified Cybersecurity professional(google has Career circle and Security+ is widely accepted(MS/Amazon/VMWare/CISCO and other certs help.
Join you local ISC2 chapter, however while I may be out of date in the UK ISSA used to be the one to join, huge and friendly membership.
Feedback your daily job search reasearching into your CV/Resume writing focusing on ho you relate to the keywords you see and look for those trainee roles, being prepared to travel relocate - after the Army and moving into IT and security about a year later I lived in five towns within a year and a half contracting, and even quit twice in disgust at my employer’s venality this settled down and my next role was eighteen months, and after that I still work for the company I started with fifteen years ago.
Lastly always think about the roles that make sense to you and you think you understand them - many people when asked about that don’t have a clear, lucid and sensible answer they can talk fluidly about. Make a mental model and refine it as you get better data.
