For a good manager, it is very important to know people and make good use of them. Xunzi, as another outstanding Confucian thinker after Confucius and Mencius, fully inherited and developed the management thought of pre-Qin Confucianism, especially in the selection of talents, formed a set of unique talent view which had a profound influence on the later generations. On the basis of adhering to the principle of enabling talents, he stipulated what talents were, and had unique views on the various links of talent management, such as selection, use and assessment. Xunzi's view of talent not only played an important role at that time, even in the modern world, the essence of his thought is still far-reaching.