Contact the Career Services office(s) at your alma mater(s) where you received your degrees and ask them for help and guidance. It's what they are there for!
Also, have you done internships in your preferred line of work? If not, getting a paid internship is a great way to gain experience and prove your value to the organization. They may be inclined to move you to fulltime if you do a bang-up job.
Finally, you need to start networking, if you haven't already. Identify 5 people in your network who might be well-connected. Meet with each of them, have a conversation about your work experience and where you would like to be in the future, then ask each of them for contact information of at least 3 more people with whom you should be meeting. Meet with those people and do exactly the same process. DO NOT ASK THEM FOR A JOB, ask them for OTHER people you should meet. During this process, you may run into folks who know of openings that might meet what you are looking for. At worst, they can help you expand your network.
There is absolute truth to the adage that "networking gets you jobs." I was unemployed in 2019 and stumbled into my current role because I had a networking meeting with my now-boss the same week that my predecessor turned in her 2-weeks' notice.
Good luck!
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