The phrase "a young associate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a junior or less experienced member of a professional team or organization.
Example: "The company hired a young associate to help with the marketing campaign, bringing fresh ideas and energy to the team."
Alternatives: "a junior associate" or "a novice associate."
Zell met Pritzker in 1969, when Pritzker was looking for a young associate.
Mr. Edwards, then a young associate, got the assignment because it was considered a loser.
The novel follows Richard Blum, a young associate at an investment firm, through his first months on the job.
This is not true of Brent Whitman, a young associate with the Wall Street law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell.
In September 2008, Mr. Simels and a young associate, Arienne Irving, were arrested on charges including witness tampering and bribery.
Trevor Noah looks like a young associate in the mergers and acquisitions group of a big city law firm.
"There were great extracurricular things this woman had done that she hadn't shared with her boss, like mentoring a younger associate," Ms. Klaus recalled.
By then Mr. Golden and Mr. Linder, along with a younger associate, Ralph Hansmann, had set up their own office on Wall Street as a base from which to manage their own money and do interesting things.
"Indicum" is his latest release on ECM, the label with which he started out more than 40 years ago; it features a longtime partner, the bassist Anders Jormin, and a younger associate, the drummer Jon Fält.
You're probably not forced to feed your boss dinner, while also tending to a younger associate, hoping that the former doesn't choke to death while you attempt to keep the latter alive as well.
Jonathan runs his company, Command PR, based on the "Swimming With Sharks" school of management — bullying a young new associate to have collagen lip injections, haranguing female assistants to look even more slutty — if that's imaginable.
