I'm Italian, I live in the Philippines and i started to seek a work and start in the same time the need of to create an English version of my CV. And i faced many different troubles. Many big employers with 20.000 and more employee use parsers to filter the CV and obtain a synthesis of the info they seek.
So the curriculum vitae must be written according in most easy way to ease the machine.
Also humans reading is a request. The HR service (Human Resource) see many CV. To avoid to have an asap-trashed Curriculum it must show difference, without excess and details care. One reason that is against of the use of common templates. They may think you are like the other. No one is equal to another. Help your future employer to see You at your best. Is up to you to have good CV. Not only in contents, but also in graphical first impact.